Word: arounder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Timing is key in Act II. The setting is backstage during a performance, and while all the actors are running around backstage (the set from Act I having been turned around), the audience hears and glimpses the actors on the other side of the backdrop performing Nothing On. Director Claflin deserves praise for his masterly staging and for the fact that the actors are able to execute his plan perfectly. Much of this act is funny because characters enter at inopportune moments and misinterpret the action they see; without exactly timed entrances and exits, this act would not work. Despite...
Lovers' quarrels provide the root of the bedlam backstage in Act II. Lejune is madly in love with Otley and is angry, suspecting that she and the bumbling Frederick Fellowes (Steve Petersen) are having an affair. Barton's Lejune storms around backstage begging Gunn's Otley to take him back, yelling at her for having an affair and plotting to kill Steve Petersen, who wonderfully portrays the innocent Fellowes...
...have time to go around taking moral stands," the voice of Douglas Brackman, the balding managing partner of the mythical Los Angeles law firm of Mackenzie Brackman, booms from the large-screen...
...last two years Taylor has devotedly arranged the furniture and television in the student center for the "L.A. Law" sessions every Thursday night. "I turn around the couches and make little trails," he solemnly says. Taylor is also in charge of publicizing the trendy Law School bonding event--a job that does not appear to be too difficult...
...Jane Fonda would be the perfect celebrity to lead the Harvard Protest Fund Drive. She could join forces with all three of Harvard's student activists and picket major American businesses. They could chant "Hey, hey, ho, ho, what we need is lots of dough," and pass around little tin cups for contributions...