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...woodblock. Sometimes the music enhances the mood, and sometimes it undercuts it, commenting on the action. Frequently tongue-in-cheek, it is always imaginative and melodious, orchestrated with pizazz and performed with panache by 12 musicians (including Ivers on harmonica, who can be viewed in full light during the curtain call...
Elizabeth McCann has a recurring nightmare. It is first night on Broadway, and the curtain is about to rise on a play that she has produced. The chandeliers sparkle, the red carpeting looks freshly laid, the giltwork on the ceiling positively glows, as if waiting for the gates of heaven itself to open. And there is total, absolute and terrifying silence. She is the only one in the hall. No one else has bothered to come...
...harsh standards of Broadway, McKellen before Amadeus was less a reality than a reputation. Even now he receives no applause of respectful recognition when he starts to speak in the first act. But when he reappears for the start of the second, the applause sounds like a curtain call. And when the curtain call itself finally comes, it is a clear ovation...
Goody said yesterday the Agassiz Theatre's stage will be furnished with new lighting, a new curtain, an intercom system and a scenery shop. She added that plans also include air-conditioning, new dressing rooms, toilets and an after-theater common room...
What in the end makes every Pudding Show a crowd-pleaser is the curtain-dropping kick-line. About halfway through the second act plot-lines begin to dissolve into a haze of anticipation; the audience gets restless waiting for the show's payoff. You forget about which actor played what part; they all don the same costumes, line up downstage, and dance. They kick, tap, waltz, jump, charleston--in Serfs Up! they even roll over and kick their feet in the air. This year's kick-line has excitement, surprises, and laughs, and even if the rest of the show...