Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, organized crime always has murder on its mind. FBI and other Justice Department officials are now contemplating the disturbing fact that no protection-not even the supposed secrecy of grand jury proceedings-is a barrier to Mob hit men when they set out to protect omertà, the curtain of silence around Mafia affairs...
...facial expressions skillfully, it is their vocal talents that carry the play. The Club's dialogue is almost entirely delivered in song. It is a real challenge to bring off a show that is entirely sung without losing the audience to sleep or the exit before the final curtain. But this play sidesteps boredom, thanks both to the musical aplomb of its performers and assorted surprises lika tap dance routine by Harlin and Bonard...
ABOUT TWO HOURS before curtain, the as in the original Broadway production of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade would take their places on stage. There, they would begin to concentrate on their own nervous habits--biting fingernails, wringing hands, pulling hair--and gradually exaggerate the habits so that even before the show began, the audience viewed them as the lunatics Weiss meant them to portray...
...solid vote for primordial superstition, it is certainly a solid boost for fun and may even contain essential elements of theatricality that have been too long neglected. When, for instance, has a playgoer been dazzled and dominated by a set rather than merely giving it the perfunctory opening-curtain applause? Edward Corey's set for Dracula at Manhattan's Martin Beck Theater is an eye-blinker. Broody, vaulting, magisterial, colored in shades of bleakest gray, it is a psychic tomb out of Edgar Allan Poe's haunted imagination. In perfect aesthetic juxtaposition, Gorey's costumes...
...years back, though, or right about the time this year's senior class was taking SAT s, the Bruins got their football act together under the auspices of John Anderson. Last year's co-championship with Yale provided the act with a curtain call, and this season, despite two early losses, Brown, according to Crimson coach Joe Restic, "has the best personnel in the league...