Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...orgasm--just look at the military budget. In another inspired sequence, a character learning that there is to be a nuclear war phones up his best friend. "Remember that $26 I owed you? Well I've got news for you--I'm never gonna pay it." This is clever and brutally honest stuff, it may well be the petty cruelties of one man to the next which make war the hell...
...START of the performance, the audience and cast are crowded in the dark in a tiny lobby outside the theater itself. Suddenly spotlights find the actors. The dialogue and an assortment of clever visual tricks begin. This goes on for quite a while, and the audience cramped and uncomfortable, begins to wonder if the entire play is to take place in this dark packed subway car of a lobby. Some people, unable to handle the jostling, nervous potential stampede, actually leave. Just as the audience begins to feel really anxious, the cast members open the doors to the theater...
THEROUX IS a clever and adopt writer, he puts a lot of funny lines into Savage's mouth. He remarks that Scaduto's wife "was one of those people who can say. "I just wrote a poem,' and make it round like, 'I just flushed the canary down the toilet'--like the maddest, most irrational act on earth." Of the English, he observes that they...
...maintain their prestige; he also realizes that if he's fifteen pages into a script and its star has yet to appear, he'll probably be told that his text is "misstructured." Stars, he asserts, demand that all the witty lines come from their characters' mouths, all the clever ideas from their characters' heads...
...amateurish performances. Usually such reproductions are filled with stilted stunts and puny actors drowned out by the bass violin, choppy set changes, dull staging. Nonetheless, most Gilbert and Sullivan shows never lose their musical vibrance or lyrical hilarity--all that's needed is singers strong enough to enunciate the clever lines and be heard above the orchestra. But the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players production of HMS Pinafore and the one-act Trial by Jury surpass all expectations. Innovative staging, talented singers, and lead actors who combine excellent stage presence with resounding, clear voices help the shows retain the delightful...