Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worked as a hotel night clerk, an airport baggage loader, a crane operator in a steel mill, a furniture mover and a plumber, all the while pursuing his real vocation: composer. Glass, however, was not hoping to make a big score with a pop song or a Broadway show. Rather, he was that least salable commodity, a revolutionary avant- gardist...
Adventuresome audiences that had made the pilgrimage downtown to Leo Castelli's influential art gallery on West Broadway in SoHo, for example, might encounter minimalist sculpture by Don Judd and Richard Serra or hear Glass's new sounds in concert. Near by, Performance Artist Anderson was playing her violin on a street corner while wearing ice skates atop a melting block of ice. Composer Steve Reich had already experimented with out-of-sync tape loops in pieces like Come Out; Choreographer Childs had created her early works, like Street Dance. "No one organized an official group or issued a manifesto...
Most actresses would give anything to appear simultaneously in a major movie and a New York play. Last year Glenn Close was doing just that, in the film The Big Chill and Broadway's The Real Thing. This year for a topper, Close, 37, is trying two of each. The Connecticut-born actress opens this week in an off-Broadway play, Childhood, and recently did an off-off-Broadway performance of Arthur Honegger's oratorio Joan of Arc at the Stake. At the same time, she has two movies in the can: The Jagged Edge, a courtroom drama, and Maxie...
Even bad Shakespeare contains more nuggets of literary gold than half the premieres of a normal Broadway season Kilty started off well in taking a chainsaw to Shakespeare's text: the lopped off lines are not missed. He set the play in interwar England, the land of tea, croquet, and highly mannered living. But the questionable decisions start coming hard and fast...
...stronger seasons, the consistently superb sets have been the real standouts. Michael Yeargan, the set designer for the gorgeous King Stag, has created an elegant English courtyard, complete with gazebo and statuary, that Broadway would have had difficulty matching at twice the budget. It's a pity that the ART techies don't get their own curtain call for a season of amazing work; they deserve it more than a number of the actors who have appeared on their stages...