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...designers, lighting engineers and stage managers must also receive due credit for their work. The set itself is simple, but a wide variety of innovative lighting techniques are used, which helps enormously. Even with the same backdrop, the different atmospheres of a sunny day, peaceful night and the fiery wrath of the gates of Hell all appear successively onstage. In addition, the colorful and elegant period costumes add to the vivacity of the singers...
Chess is a thought-provoking story of two world-class chess players--Anatoly, a Russian, and Freddie, an American--competing against the backdrop of Cold War tension and paranoia. With lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of Abba, the songs were quirky and delightful. The play opens in Budapest in 1956 with a man is teaching his young daughter Florence to play chess. Soldiers rush in and take Florence away, and the scene shifts to the present, where arrogant, self-centered Freddie (Michael Kim '97) and a quieter and more restrained Anatoly (Janson...
...costumes and sets for Le Corsaire were stunning. The bazaar was brightly decorated, with a backdrop of towering mosques. The pale cream buildings matched the pomp and brilliance of the harem women's and merchants' attire. The pirates' lair was set in a misty blue lagoon: one almost expected to see a little mermaid appear out of the ocean. The scenes with the life-size ship moving across the stage were fun to watch although the men who pushed it across had the cameo appearance with their shoes peeking out from beneath...
Such penury seems baffling when viewed against the backdrop of Zaire's extravagant natural endowments. Beneath its vast territory lie 60% of the earth's cobalt and much of the world's supply of industrial-grade diamonds, plus substantial reserves of zinc, copper, manganese and gold. But ever since the prices of metals began dropping in the 1970s, Zaire's economic progress has been frozen. Stagnation turned into catastrophe in the late 1980s, when the cold war ended and the Western powers that had bankrolled Mobutu as a bulwark against communism informed him that his credit...
...Carmen." The sharp, well-fitting uniforms of the Spanish officers and toreadors compliment the proud, dashing style of the male dancers, while the blazing, feathery gowns of Carmen, the village girls and the gypsies make it appear that the female stars are dancing on air itself. The simple backdrop changes colors according to the lighting, creating the perfect set for "Carmen"--one that lets the audience fully enjoy the desire igniting onstage...