Word: interrupter
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...Company completes this process of transforming the musical. This show has fourteen charaters and all but one of them also serve as nameless vocal commentators on the action. Very few scenes are broken up by characters bursting into song; all songs fall between scenes or, if they do interrupt the script, are sung by performers who are not in the scene which is being interrupted. The work of Rodgers and Hammerstein has been undone atlast. We are back in some sense where the musical started structurally-only the musical numbers are now not irrelevant to the show but complementary...
...third theme, I suppose, is to be found in the commercials for a company called "America, Inc.," which periodically interrupt the story. (America, Inc. is advertising a pamphlet concerning "America's Greatest Challenge"). We get another look at America through the eyes of Jean Shepperd, who provides some nostalgic remarks on drive-ins, turnpikes. Howard Johnson ses, etc. The last theme, which runs throughout the program and which is dealt with both implicitly and explicitly, concerns the way in which the presence of the television camera alters reality...
...Remember when Truman partisans used to interrupt his speeches with shouts of "Give 'em hell, Harry...
Members of the Boston Area Congress for Tenants' Rights (BACTR) had planned to enter Temple Emmanuel to interrupt the bar mitzvah ceremony of the grandson of Boston landlord Maurice Gordon. His son, Robert Gordon, is on the synagogue's hoard of directors...
...group left peacefully, however, when a temple administrator informed them that the Gordon bar mitzvah was scheduled for next Saturday. Representatives of the association are meeting with the Gordon family today, but have said they will interrupt the bar mitzvah next week unless their demands are met by then...