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With the prologue to The Death of Cuchulain, Yeats speaks directly to his audience through the character of the Old Man--a figure Yeats created shortly before his own death. Miller has taken the cue to dress Barnum, (who already fairly resembles the old poet) in a suit and spectacles Yeats might have worn himself. The impersonation of the hoary and slightly confused Yeats is the strongest performance of the evening. It makes it clear that the poet wrote a part of himself into each of the Old Men in the other plays...
...achievement as a film. Produced by Hal Prince, directed by Joe Masteroff, with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb. Cabaret appeared on Broadway in 1966 to deliver a telling blow to the old-fashioned Broadway musical where songs served merely as dialogue and the songs cue was king. Ever since Oklahoma' had hit the scene in the forties, musicals were presumed to be merely souped up dramas. Lyrics had to advance the plot and dances were expected to serve some dramatic function. Cabaret was one of the few musicals of the middle sixties to say that needn...
...spitting snarls, Maria denounces Elizabeth to her face ("obscene, unworthy prostitute . . . vile bastard"), and thereby seals her doom. At the end, Sills is the epitome of resolute self-control, pulling her disparate and volatile selves together, laying her head bravely on the block and rapping it three times to cue the executioner, as, by some accounts, Maria did. Going to one's death onstage is nothing new for any opera singer. But Sills somehow always manages to put new life into it. -William Bender
...greatest Indian that ever lived, shot by order of government. Shot with a gatling gun, while the wonderful grey horse I gave him for performing in my show danced his repertory of tricks in the background, since a gunshot was his cue to perform...
...revelation about fear of success came from the one sex "cue" included in the experiment. Horner had modified the familiar TAT (Thematic Apperception Test*) to require males to write about the success of another male, females on the success of a female. Asked to write about a mythical girl at the top of her medical school class, more than 65% of the women associated her success with depression, illness and sometimes even death. Asked to write about a boy in the same position, 90% of the men equated his success with happiness and prosperity. The women obviously seemed afraid...