Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this elegant Sheridan masterpiece down pat: the well-considered, well-balanced details of posture and diction and timing give an impression of perfect naturalness to a mode which, in all likelihood, was never natural for anyone. Producing such a stylized work without making it stilted, bringing another age's ideal behavior to life, is always risky. It is also precisely the kind of risky business that a talented, academically alert company like the ART should spend its time...
Rogers's approach to crew has made him an ideal captain. In a sport known for egos and prima donnas, Rogers's easygoing personality provides a soothing counterbalance. "As captain he has been exceptionally effective in a very quiet but also very effective way." Parker says...
...efficiencies led to major problems. Infighting between headquarters and regional offices, said the report, effectively stopped the program from going forward. It cast official bickering over procedures and a preoccupation in Washington with saving money in terms of a classic bureaucratic foul-up. Stated the report: "Far from the ideal of top-down management, the program has endured something more akin to management by hung jury...
Sellars and his conductor, Craig Smith, are scrupulous about observing all musical amenities. The scoring combines respect for tradition with a verve that comes within hailing distance of being ideal. The singers perform zestfully, even when Sellars requires the principals to sing lying on the floor, as if they were practicing some new kind of aerobic exercise for the vocal cords. Instead of reinforcing the staging, or indeed placing it in the kind of paradoxical context limned by Brecht and Weill, this straightforward musicality puts the brakes on the rambunctious staging. The rhythms of the songs and the pace...
...seeks not so much to rejustify all these stage pieces as to re-examine them, even reinvent them, for a contemporary audience. What is up-to-date in The Mikado is timeless, but what is charming is essentially antique, brittle as a piece of porcelain. Porcelain is not the ideal material for broad strokes and bright colors...