Word: hamlin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staging his 1974 musical version of Candide, director Hal Prince completely tore apart and re-arranged a New York theater in order that the show could take place on all sides of the audience. The current Loeb production does not quite secreate Prince's arena, since director George Hamlin felt it would inhibit the view of some parts of the audience in several scenes. But Derek McLane, the set designer, has replaced a number of seats with a huge pit, in which the audience sits on benches and on the floor, and has also created a number of platforms connected...
Like the products of such factories in the '30s, actors from the same term-contract stable are to be seen in both movies, as are the same hopelessly unrealistic standing sets, only cursorily redecorated. In the first, a New York errand boy (Harry Hamlin), affronted by a contender, knocks him out with a single punch and is induced to abandon his quest for a night-school law degree in order to enter the square circle (about the only cliche not to be heard in the script), in order to earn money for an operation to save his sister...
...Hamlin said he is not sure what will happen to the technical staff if Brustein brings in his Repertory company. "They want to know if they should go out and look for jobs," he added...
Another question Loeb staff should bring up at the meeting is how they should plan for future productions, Hamlin said...
Also unclear, Hamlin said, is "the direction the Loeb should go next year," if Brustein is to come to the Loeb in the fall...