Word: aproned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opposing balconies at the downstage end. From time to time other interiors are suggested by lowering backdrop tapestries in the middle or sliding in a kitchen table from the wings. For garden scenes some potted trees are rolled in, and the sea-coast scenes are played on a side apron. Thus, aided by David Segal's lighting, the impact of the designer's architecture can be lessened when desired...
Giancarlo Uzielli has thrown in the towel as a member of the New York Stock Exchange -and picked up an apron. To practice up for Uzies, the Manhattan restaurant he plans to open, he has been tending bar at a local dining spot. "As long as they don't throw me a piña colada, I'm O.K.," says Uzielli, who is the ex of Henry Ford's younger daughter, Anne. Uzies will specialize in Italian cooking, including pizza. "I don't like the word pizza. It cheapens it," says Uzielli. By any name...
...lights dimmed, Horowitz seemed to spring from the wings. Smiling all the while, he advanced to the edge of the stage apron, gestured to the left and right, saluted the balcony, sat down, fiddled with the bench, tugged at his cuffs, and then nodded to Ormandy that the festivities could proceed...
...jester Rigoletto has hidden, or so he thinks, his daughter Gilda from a menacing outside world. And so on. The tower is, alas, not a very arrest ing centerpiece, especially against Designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch's eye-of-the-hurricane backdrops. Worse, it is shoved too close to the apron. Events that take place in front of the tower seem cloaked in claustrophobia...
...rely pretty much on their costumes and gestures for verisimilitude. But Mitch Weissman is a dead ringer for McCartney, not just in his stance and round face, but in the way he captures the pleasantly boyish manner in which Paul went about his stage business. Seated alone at the apron, accompanying himself on guitar, he sings Yesterday in a way that is totally unpretentious and touching...