Word: alf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to preserve the drama of Suffragette without sacrificing the documented history that provides its backdrop, Birnbaum and Rubins have made several structural innovations in musical theater. One of these cleverly incorporates musical theater's most traditional element--the stock character. Alf and Charlie, two seedy English music hall singers and the only non-historical characters in the play, appear immediately after the overture and return periodically to personify the smug complacent attitude of Parliament and most of 19th century England toward the women's demands. Through the motif of 19th century music hall songs, they provide a constant mocking...
...music of Suffragette, written by Rubins and arranged by Peter Larson, orchestrator for the production, combines Alf and Charlie's music hall ditties with traditional theater music. With a full-pit orchestra and a strong emphasis on brass and cymbals, many of the songs have a marching, ballad-like quality which communicates the spirit of commitment that is at the center of Suffragette...
WEST EUROPEAN STUDIES SEMINAR on post-war Scandinavian film presents Torment, written by Ingmar Bergman (his first film), directed by Alf Sjeberg. Thurs., WINTHROP HOUSE DINING HALL, 8 p.m., and Fri., LENMAN HALL...
...first goal of the game came on an outstanding effort by Dartmouth forward Alf Alford. He dribbled the ball right up the middle of the field through the bewildered Crimson defense and scored on a low shot into the left corner just past the during goalie George McKennan...
...Lear grew up in such a milieu-poor but not depressing-and both reach back to early days for authentic touches to bring their shows home to viewers. Lear's salesman father, though a second-generation Russian Jew, was almost as much of a source for Archie as Alf Garnett was. He used to call Norman "the laziest white kid I ever saw" and order his wife to "stifle"-both expressions that were to become Archie's. The family shifted restlessly from New Haven, Conn., where Norman was born, to nearby Hartford, then to Boston and New York...