Word: eckart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Visually, the production has much to delight the audience, though there is nothing to suggest the Athens specified in the text. William and Jean Eckart have designed a set of six tall white poles, to which are added holed panels, like cheese slices, and fluted sails for the court scenes. When affairs shift to the woods, a trainload of glittering white plastic streamers hangs down like so much Spanish moss...
Visually, the production has much to delight the audience, though there is nothing to suggest the Athens specified in the text. William and Jean Eckart have designed a set of six tall white poles, to which are added holed panels, like cheese slices, and fluted sails for the court scenes. When affairs shift to the woods, a trainload of glittering white plastic streamers hangs down like so much Spanish moss...
William and Jean Eckart created the single all-purpose set, a convincing and pleasantly large living room. And Florence Klotz is responsible for Miss O'Sullivan's handsome dresses. Should you see Never Too Late? Sure. But if you miss it this year, there'll be another one like it next year. And the year after...
William and Jean Eckart designed the extremely handsome settings. Since the cast includes three Rosepettles, Commodore Rosabove, Rosalie, and Rosalinda the fish--and, for all I know, Jonathan may be keeping a "Rosebud" sled in his closet--it is no surprise that the chief color of the decor (and of some of the costumes) is rose, with which two pieces of orange-upholstered furniture are delightfully inharmonious. And Thomas Skelton's lighting, properly non-realistic, is stunning...
...chaste has got to be chased," they talk of sponsors, top brass, secret weapons, summit meetings and population explosions. Against all this, the evening offers Jan ice Rule as a Diana down in Athens from Olympus, Cyril Ritchard as a Pluto up from Hades, attractive William and Jean Eckart sets. The musical also has at least one good Dania Krupska ballet, and some of Offenbach's best and best-known tunes...