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...Kind oi Shroud. In his final plea, Sinyavsky said: "It is always the same hair-raising quotations from the indictment, repeated dozens of times and mounting up to create a monstrous atmosphere that no longer bears any relation to reality. It creates a kind of shroud, a peculiar kind of electrified atmosphere in which the boundary between the real and the grotesque becomes blurred, rather as in the works of Arzhak and Tertz. In general, a real 'Public Murder Day'-but only with two actors: Daniel and myself...
...CHOI Oi (as in the Yiddish expletive oy oy!) is an all-purpose Vietnamese phrase of uncertain origin, meaning, at best, good grief...
Without music, Enter Laughing is just too big a matzoh ball to swallow. Not that a score was ever written for the show, but one might forgive the vacuous book if the oi-so-stock Jewish jokes were textured frequently with a clever little song. After all, I Can Get It For You Wholesale--with an equally trite situation--overcame its basic obnoxiousness with show stoppers like "Miss Marmelstein." Enter Laughing, however, doesn't even...
Into this madhouse prances Vossen Gleich with an admonitory "Oi, Shemanskys!" He pours out a stream of instructions on how to live together and how to mourn. Gleich is a nut too, but different from the Shemanskys: fortified with faith in ritual and his own deep warmth, Gleich temporarily stuns the Shemanskys into their tradition: to mourn, to rend their clothes, to talk compassionately of the dead idiot child. The Shemanskys, however, soon evict Gleich (who had moved in with Mrs. Charpolsky) and, as Ma dictates, do not mourn for Zadie (the Shemansky grandfather and financial supporter who died...
...Monteverdi's rarely performed Coronation of Poppea proved its viability by inaugurating the 1963 Dallas Civic Opera season. And it was not the salacious story that kept Poppea popping. In Monteverdi's musical and theatrical masterpiece burgeon the seeds of the great operas of succeeding centuries-hints oi Verdi, Wagner and Richard Strauss...