Word: ah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into thinking everything's going to come quickly. Overnight, From now on I'll be great. I have to work towards it." I left him to his practising and in the hall bumped into a member of the Music Department. "You were in there with Ronan Lefkowitz!" he gushed. "Ah, When Ronan first arrived here he was a good fiddler. There was promise glaring through every note he played, but he was just a good fiddler. But now--what a beautiful violinist...
...Ah, but the Ex, they will tell you, was designed for, and is most suited to original work. It's true--the versatility that is the Ex's charm encourages Innovation. And for most smaller-scale drama, the Ex is great. But to try to produce a full-scale musical there could be like booking the HRO for a concert in the Cafe Pamplona. Not only would the necessity of a large stage reduce the already small theater's audience capacity to about twenty, but the Ex is obviously acoustically wrong for large choruses. So recently, musicals have turned...
...AH, WILDERNESS...
...Neill. Distrusting both people and words, O'Neill was an unlikely dramatist whose literal mind made him work out everything for himself. In his earlier plays he achieved repetitiveness, instead of the cumulative force of the late ones. A three-hour trifle in the O'Neill canon, Ah, Wilderness! was written in 1933. A comedy, it describes how, on July 4, 1906, 17-year-old Dick Miller (Richard Backus) began to grow up. That was the day he fell in love, was spurned, got drunk and realized that his parents were, after all, human...
...alone, but "they can show me anything." He never comments on a character, instead draws out a motivation from the actor. "I do not believe actors are children or dumb. They are complex people with sensibilities equal to mine in a different direction." Says Geraldine Fitzgerald, whose appearance in Ah, Wilderness! is one of several she has made with the company: "He reminds me of Max Reinhardt, with whom I worked in Sons and Soldiers in 1943. For both of them, the theater is acting. Arvin never puts down actors or upstages them...