Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eternity to light cigarettes, shuffle folders, and perform other simple tasks that would go unnoticed were they not performed with such tedious, painstaking care. Too often, these just create empty gaps in the action. Similarly, jokes are often belabored by both actors as if they are asking for a laugh. Consequently, all they get is a nervous titter...
...basses, who often find themselves stereotyped as priests, old men, court advisers, and evildoers. Diaz recognizes this--"I have no choice, I'm sort of stuck with my voice range. What can you do? The repertoire has already been written"--but doesn't think it will stop him. He laughs. "I still have an enormous variety of roles to play, and I unrealistically expect my voice to laugh forever...
...chaotic--conductor Schippers was already exasperated, snapping angry commands at the musicians: Diaz, whose cape was falling off, was trying in vain not to trip on it; there were mistakes in blocking; an 'extra' kept dropping his spear with an audible clatter; and Sills handled it all by laughing. The more tired she got, the more often she sat down between arias to massage her back, the more she joked with Diaz and Verre,; a few times they missed their cues and had to whirl around and catch the line in mid phrase. At one point while Sills herself...
...hotel room about the opening performance of Arms and the Man the night before. "I had the curious experience of witnessing an apparently insane success," he laments in a letter to Henry Arthur Jones, "with the actors and actresses almost losing their heads with the intoxication of laugh after laugh, and of going before the curtain to tremendous applause, the only person in the theatre who knew that the whole affair was a ghastly failure." Poor Shaw was to tussle, with benighted audiences and thick critics for some time over the amusing play. His was a serious drama about...
Butley. At least when Alan Bates had the load, this was a tremendously funny play, literally a laugh a minute. The subject matter is unlikely--a boozy English English professor at a red brick university who in a single day manages to lose his wife, his job and his homosexual lover. It's impossible to predict whether or not the hard-edged English ability to turn pathos into comedy will be well reproduced at Dunster House, but if the Dunster House British Comedy Evening last year was any indication, they have the ability to do very well indeed. At Dunster...