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...stage itself is equally unusual, with a moving platforms for the scenes set in the shepherd's modern living room and a long screen occasionally revealing revealing silhouettes of characters. The characters also periodically open and close the stage's curtain, smoothing transitions from one scene to another as well as emphasizing their own movements...
DIED. Wilfred Burchett, 72, Australian journalist whose pro-Communist sympathies undercut the credibility of his many newspaper dispatches and books written behind the Iron Curtain in Europe and Asia, including wartime reports from North Korea and later North Viet Nam; of complications from a liver ailment; in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he had lived for the past year...
After the curtain had fallen last week on the Royal Ballet's production of Giselle at London's Covent Garden, Dame Margot Fonteyn plucked a single long-stemmed red rose from one of her many bouquets and with a deep curtsy presented it to her young partner-ex-Kirov Ballet Danseur Rudolf Nureev. The young Russian lowered his eyes, sank to his knees and kissed the assoluta's hand. The audience exploded in an ovation that lasted through 23 curtain calls...
...Prison, sat Gary Mark Gilmore, 36, freshly shaven and wearing a black T shirt, crumpled white trousers and red, white and blue sneakers. His neck, waist, wrists and feet were loosely bound to the chair. Twenty-six feet away hung a sailcloth partition with five slits. Hidden behind the curtain stood five riflemen armed with .30-.30 rifles, four loaded with steel-jacketed shells, the fifth with a blank...
Outside the Mark Hellinger, police patrolled the sidewalk at curtain time on opening night while pickets marched in protest. Queues of buses continue to disgorge paying customers who have bought seats in blocks: suburban klatsches of all sorts, whole schoolfuls of children, and Protestant, Catholic and Jewish lay groups, many of whom have heard Jesus Christ Superstar on records at church or temple. Simultaneously, religious groups, often from the same denominations as those flocking inside, proclaim outrage at the show. YOU'VE GOT YOUR STORY TWISTED! JESUS IS THE LORD...