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FROM THE MOMENT the curtain opens on the fishing village of Rederring in Cornwall, the set stands out as the star of the Gilbert and Sullivan Players' latest production, the three hours operetta Ruddygore. Unfortunately, the cast has a difficult time living up to the set designer's stunning visualization of the tangled G & S plot. Whereas it is often difficult to hear the singers over the heavy-handed orchestra, the set, with its lovely panorama of country landscape in the first act, and its gloomy display of life-size portraits in the second, is always visible...
...this with a vengeance in 1978, with a production of Mozart's The Magic Flute at Glyndebourne. From the moment the curtain rose on Hockney's version of an early Italian Renaissance landscape, complete with a dragon quoted from Uccello, the audience was saturated in color: deep purples of the night sky, the green and pink of formal gardens in Sarastro's domain on the yellow Nilotic sands, blue cataracts and blazing gold art deco sunbursts...
...music underscores the play's striking visual opening. The curtain rises on a bare stage with the entire cast sitting silently in a semi-circle, representing the suffocating constrictions of the tiny village society Yerma lives in. Yerma (Claudia Silver) lies isolated from the rest of the cast in the middle of half-moon, while a brief film by Carl Sprague flickers over her head...
...Dartmouth loss reflected badly on the Eli character. In the first half, the defense held against the second-string Big Green quarterback, and short firstdown passes by Bulldog QB Mike Curtain kept Yale moving...
...after halftime something went wrong. "We got a little conservative, we tried to hang on," says Andrie. Curtain abandoned the aggressive passing and stuck to the ground, hoping to use up more time. Instead, Yale stopped making first downs and didn't score in the second half...