Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final problem with On the Town is that Comden and Green teamed up to write an unnecessarily slow second act, which gets bogged down in period parody of New York night clubs. A director can help the long night-club scene by pacing it almost out of existence. But this particular director has pacing problems which result from the long scene changes; there is no way of getting around the stage waits but a little more traveling music from the orchestra would help...
...Townis so ambitious and so often good that it makes one wish it were closer to perfect. For instance, this and every other House production needs, but never gets, ingenious, imaginative lighting effects to help out the necessarily modest sets. (On the Town's sets, designed by W. Chappell and Michael Dyett, feature a clevel mosaic New York Skyline but suffer from being too close to the audience--which is why some brilliant lighting might help...
...poverty program's central neighborhood council, composed of representatives, of the poor from Laredo neighborhoods, voted to support VIDA in any of its efforts, as long as VIDA's work remained non-violent. Ted Delapass, Sr., president of the council, said that a group "so clearly intended to help Laredo's poor" should certainly have the poverty program's support...
There was another possible factor in the pair's release. In accord with their supervisors' instructions to remain in the background, the VISTAs did not help picket the downtown afeteria that VIDA had chosen as the first objective in its restaurant organization project. However Birnbaum and Ruhe did solicit funds for VIDA, and in their solicitation called several persons connected with the poverty program who not only emphatically refused to donate to VIDA but openly objected to the VISTAs aiding that group...
...Laredo last month. Hale called on Kazen in his downtown law offices. What they discussed is unknown, but many suspect that Kazen has long felt the whole Laredo VISTA program to be a potential threas to the smooth functioning of the machine, and was taking this opportunity to help get rid of two of the biggest "troublemakers...