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...HANSEL & GRETEL blends Humperdinck's opera music (ably arranged) with a libretto that softens the grim story by making it a pageant staged by a Salzburg family. The highlight: David Gallo's sets, which are sturdy enough to travel, versatile enough to become a forest or a witch's lair, and ravishing...
When it ventures to Meehan Auditorium tonight, the Harvard men's hockey team will be stepping into a lair that includes the seniors who made up Gaudet's first recruiting class...
...production design by Maria Bjornson gives added nuance to the music and the acting. The set transports us to another world. We sail to the Phantom's lair with Christine and feel the ominous pressures of the darkness seeping out of the Phantom. The New Year's Eve masquerade in Act Two, is reminiscent of Poe's "Masque of the Red Death." The Phantom, clad in an angry, bloody red, exacts a shaken silence from the revelers. Like the plague in Poe's tale, the Phantom lurks at every twist and turn...
...point--reminiscent of the corniest comic book scenes--Catwoman come to Penguin's lair and proposes a plot to destroy Batman. As anything but an opportunity for her to stretch and purr in her clingy suit, the scene is a complete waste...
...Batman Returns, everything is familiarly topsy-turvy. Black is good -- Batman, of course -- and white or bright is bad. Max, the rapacious industrialist, has a Stokowskian white mane that helps Gothamites think of him as Santa Claus, though Selina derisively calls him "Anti Claus." The Penguin's sewer-level lair, Arctic World, is a garishly colorful place; it has ice-white walls, chartreuse toxic bile and a giant yellow ducky that serves as the Penguin's Stygian barge...