Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like most Loeb productions, Mary Stuart is technically impressive--from the simple, stylized sets to Elizabeth's jewel-encrusted costumes to the eloquent lighting. The final scene--Elizabeth's last hurrah--is superbly staged: the lights dim on each of the queen's advisers as they leave her one by one, until she sits alone, framed by a spotlight on her proud, lonely face. The effect is magnificent...
...Saturday night; the cast of American in Purgatory was preparing its closing performance. The Agassiz Theater lies a grassy fifty yards from the Loeb but seems shabby genteel by comparison. the dressing rooms huddle in the basement, ceilinged by exposed pipes that cast members have garnished with crepe paper. The festive one-for-all atmosphere heightened in intensity; in a few hours the only remnant of two months work would be a stack of slides the producer arranges in a small, plastic carousel. "AAAaaah, Ooooh, la-la-la-la-la-ne-ne-ne-t-t-t-;" gregarious gobs gather...
There are screams and popping balloons and hugs and pats on the back and the show closes. The audience, full of Loeb big-timers, streams into the greenroom after curtain calls and a crew of T-shirted techies replaces the actors on stage to tear down the set. Author Philip LaZebnik stands out in the greenroom, partially because of his lanky height, partially because of the flock of people who rush to shake his hand. But each actor is surrounded by his own crowd; they smile in a daze, drained and wet. Some of them are on the verge...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club sponsored Cash's speech to "present the other perspective to Loeb," James M. Strock '77, president of the club, said yesterday. Loeb spoke to the Republican Club last year...
...Loeb and New Hampshire Governor Meldrin Thompson are both suing Cash for libel, but Cash said yesterday he can "prove every fact" in his book...