Word: cyclorama
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...CYCLORAMA, BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Associate Artists Opera Company. Montezuma., an opera by Graun and Frederick the Great. Tickets...
...CYCLORAMA BUILDING. (551 Tremont St.) Amahl and the Night Visitors...
...play cries out for a locale--a definite fix in time and space--he has staged it with settings as homey and identifiable as the mountains of the moon, and costumes suggestive of a Bulgarian re-make of Flash Gordon. The addition of a sort of light show-cyclorama, beautiful as it may be in the abstract works largely to complement the confusion...
...show was supposed to be "a satire on our dehumanized society." It was also intended as a "sensory assault," careening along, sometimes with the screen split four ways, reaching for a dizzying 300 laughs in a half hour. To add to the disorientation, the set was a white plaster cyclorama and the cast wore invisible white booties. It all seemed to come from beautiful downtown nowhere. So did the gags, leaning largely on contraception and homosexuality. In response to critics' and affiliates' protest, the network cancelled this week's episode and called a weekend meeting "to determine...
...present production does not keep us in doubt for long. Before the performance even begins we see a huge golden lion-rampant hanging in front of a blue cyclorama -- the lion being a traditional symbol of gold, and gold having long been termed "the lion of metals." Underneath we note part of two arched Venetian foot-bridges, both of gold. A short masque takes place on stage, but we are put somewhat ill-at-ease by the dissonant musical score provided by Richard Peaslee (a far cry from the pleasant harmonies Virgil Thomson composed for the Festival's Merchant...