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...Kayl Lots of singing and dancing. See the review on page two. Tonight through Saturday at the Loeb at 8 p.m. except Saturday at 9. Student rush tickets, available half an hour before curtain...
...abovementioned preface he notes that in Chinese drama an actor may straddle a stick to suggest horseback riding, and that in the Japanese Noh theater a circling of the stage may stand for a long journey. He might have added that the centuries-old Noh drama uses no curtain and no change of lighting. The plays are acted with few or no props beyond a fan, which may represent a cup of wine or a deadly weapon. We know, too, that Wilder was deeply affected by seeing the art of Mei Lan-fang when the late Chinese star visited...
Shouts and Applause. When the opening night curtain went up on Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, it all seemed worth the effort. Boris is the pinnacle of Russian opera, and those who filled the Met last week seemed to have no doubt that the Bolshoi's interpretation was something of a peak, too. The audience let loose repeated barrages of bravos, shouts and applause. Even Andy Warhol was seen to touch palm to palm. The Bolshoi stars were surprised and somewhat unnerved. "They didn't know who to send out first for curtain calls," said Gilbert Hemsley...
Just three weeks ago, Gelsey Kirkland, 22, stepped onstage at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. She was dancing her first Giselle, the role that is the ultimate test for a ballerina. When the curtain came down, Kirkland was established as America's newest prima ballerina. She evoked memories of Makarova's lyrical lightness and the authority of Plisetskaya. But her speed is her own. Gelsey on points flies like a swallow...
During the conference's formal sessions, Ford and the European heads of state will discuss a variety of mutual concerns. Among them are U.S. negotiations with the Soviet Union to limit nuclear arms, European talks with the Soviets to reduce troop levels along the Iron Curtain, and the Soviet desire for a conference of 35 nations this fall to ratify European borders as established by World War II. But two items at the top of Ford's list of priorities will not even appear on the formal agenda: the dispute between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus...