Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of their Green Key weekend, the hosts seemed unable to shake off the wine, women, and song and get down to playing lacrosse. They completely dominated the first half yet only managed to push one of 13 shots past Harvard goalie Bob Norton...
...numbing slim-wittedness of Arthur Laurents' book seems to have infected the score: the songs evaporate as they leave the orchestra pit, despite such potent tunesmiths as Composer Jule Styne or Lyricists Adolph Green and Betty Comden. Some of the dances catch fire, notably a G.I. close-order drill done with smoking speed to syncopated shouts, and in a show that is more candied than candid, Leslie Uggams and Robert Hooks perform with unblemished, infectiously likable honesty. Apart from being lovely to look at, Uggams has a shy sly smile that burgles the theater house. She can cradle...
...Family Portrait, a rainbow-hued collection of triangular, circular and arched abstract forms made of painted wood, stuffed canvas and hairy cloth, looked like a creative child's garden of playthings. Kenneth Price's egg-shaped ceramic, glossily glazed in sea blue, sunny yellow and golfing green, beguiled the eye with its nonobjective purity...
...screen for projected slides, including, by way of a signature, pictures of Levine himself. In addition, two of the rooms had huge bags of the same material, which were regularly puffed up and then deflated by wind machines. To some, they looked like pillows for the Jolly Green Giant, to others, like an overwrought udder. Levine explains that he goes in for environmental art because "paintings are dumb. A person should be able to move through his environment and absorb what is happening...
...decision to use projections is wise, for nothing is more impossible than creating a believable magic forest from paper and paint. John Halvorson's slides and the green and blue light scheme ordained by Alan Symonds worked well enough when the stage was quiet and the poetry delivered with reasonable facility...