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...press release from the Mayor's officerevealed Menino's naked politicking: "A farewellbreakfast was held at the Cyclorama on TremontStreet in the South End. Some members areparticipating in a golf outing this afternoon at[The Country Club] in Brookline where the RyderCup will be played next year...
...walks and demonstrations by living-history groups. Don't miss the one-hour "Life of the Common Soldier" program, which allows kids to enlist, march, drill and even receive an honorable discharge. The program is offered daily at 11, but register early--between 10 and 10:30--at the Cyclorama Center. (These five days are expected to be very crowded, so make your hotel reservations early...
WHAT ARE WE TO MAKE OF Virgil Thomson's impish opera Four Saints in Three Acts? Composed to a nonsense text by Gertrude Stein, originally sung by a mostly amateur all-black cast and set against a 15,000-sq.-ft. cyclorama backdrop made of cellophane, the work was a sensation at its Hartford, Connecticut, premiere in February 1934 and quickly moved to Broadway for a six-week run. Ever since, music lovers have been debating what, if anything, it means. "Pigeons, on the grass alas," indeed...
Dance Umbrella holds performances everywhere in Boston, from the Hatch Shell to the Cyclorama (where the aerial dancers performed) to Emerson College's Majestic Theatre. "We're an unusual group in that we're homeless by choice," says Alliger. "This prevents us from limiting our programming decisions. In one season we can work in everything from a 400-seat black-box theater to the Wang Center, and everything in between. We can accommodate the artists' provisions and we can grow with the artists...
...Midsummer Night's Dream than the New York Shakespeare Festival's open-air theater in Central Park. The scenery takes full advantage of the fact that there is a real lake for a backdrop and real stars are a twinkle in God's Own Cyclorama. The greens that fill the stage are genuine trees, shrubs and grass, implanted on a gently rolling surface that could not be more naturalistic if someone had dug up a wood near Athens and shipped it to Manhattan C.O.D. Unlike the more self-conscious conceits that have been lavished on this most...