Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire inside of the respectable Broadway Theater has been gutted and rebuilt along the lines of an amusement park fun house-ten different playing areas scattered throughout, with running ramps, movable drawbridges, balconies. In the midst of the chaos, spectators are arrayed in bleachers or on stools in the pit. Such environmental gimmickry can be hazardous...
...music are quite a bit of work, especially considering that, at least as far as the kick line goes, the amount of talent involved is pitifully meager. Voight Kempson, the director, does a lot to compensate for this absence, by a lavish and effective use of mannerisms. The pit band seems more competent, though they tend to drown out some of the weaker voices onstage. The music Jonathan Scheffer and Barry Cohen dreamed up (stole?) for this show is the usual pastiche of everything from Motown to madrigal, with Harry Belafonte thrown in as some sort of transition...
...just recently recovered from bronchitis. The role of Constanze is a demanding one, and she butchers "Marten aller Arten." She is perhaps very courageous, but she should have let her understudy sing. Ruth Elena Harcovitz was splendid as the spitfire lady-in-waiting to Constanze. With no orchestra pit in the Peabody School auditorium singers have to project through their accompaniment. Harcovitz's clean soprano and bright enunciation bring some of the best sound balance in the production...
...Little Lads." Nonetheless, many of those in debt as well as surface workers, power workers, and clerical staff will vote no. "How can I live on nothing at all?" asks Jack Chapman, a clerical worker at the Gedling pit for 22 years. "I'm not cutting my own throat." But most of Britain's colliers, the ones who dig out the coal day after day for 30 and 40 years, will vote, even reluctantly, with their union. "They thought we'd go back to work like little lads," says Whelan. "But Ted Heath stumbled into something bigger...
...that day of running competition, Harvard will pit top miler Ric Rojas against arch-rival Mike Buckley of Northeastern. After edging out Buckley in a dual meet at Northeastern, Rojas succumbed to the fleet Buckley in a televised mile at Bentley College...