Word: devil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also be one of the last chances for the West to deal with the devil it knows, as it were. As the congress settled into a numbing round of other speeches and reports, it bore throughout the un mistakable stamp of the cagey, infirm old boss who had once again exercised absolute control. Quite possibly for the last time...
...order to gain this support, the regime has had to shake hands with the devil, reality, and make some concessions to the army to keep military support. Yet an amazing start has been made. All large (over 1250 acres) farms have been made into cooperatives. The landless sharecroppers have been given freehold title to the soil they work. In fact, the far right tried to slow down the program by killing the American land reform experts sent by U.S. labor unions who were running the show. Moreover, the far right dislikes the presence of American military advisors who inhibit...
Christopher Randolphe plays an excellent Faustus, and is best in this scene as the enthusiastic and heedless seeker of gratification who signs a blood pact with the devil, turning over his soul in return for 24 years of all-power and all-knowledge. Strutting about the stage in a black medieval scholar's cloak over a tuxedo, Randolphe makes a powerful spector, and the audience can immediately grasp the depth of Faustus' commitment to his pact...
...influence on Martins' choreography. Mr. B. takes his cue from the music, not stories, and so does Martins. The Russian folk tale that Stravinsky strung his music around has all but vanished in this production. Those who want to can find hints of a soldier and the devil playing tricks on each other, but Martins' eye is squarely on dance as Balanchine sees it: speed, color, pattern, technical brilliance. The 22 dancers who appear in L'Histoire are costumed as visual metaphors of sound, not as characters in a script. The men, in unitards, belts and boots...
...core of this musical is song and dance. The tuneful seductiveness of the score, especially Thinking of You, Any Little Thing, Up in the Clouds, is not to be found in Evita, Barnum or 42nd Street. Choreographer Dan Siretta sculptures stage space with stylized forms, and his Dancing the Devil Away is a New York prairie fire kindled with tap shoes. The show is not for worrywarts who want to cure the world's ills with a $25 donation...