Word: pits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clip. The time is ripe for good opera, Ward believes, but he deplores the tendency-exemplified in Alban Berg's Wozzeck-to shift the dramatic emphasis from singers to orchestra. "Everything must happen in the voice," says Ward. "Opera belongs on the stage, not in the orchestra pit...
...passing years have made some changes in the sociology of adultery. In this third film version of the book-Ross Hunter's full-color, widescreen. $2,500,000 overproduction in which the bathrooms look like the lobby of the Beverly Hilton-the fallen woman falls, not into the pit of shame, but into the lap of luxury. She still suffers, but on silk...
...auto-framing Fisher Brothers ("Body by Fisher"), the new theater cost $3,500.000, has a lobby big enough for tennis matches, is full of Italian marble, East Indian rosewood and cut-glass German chandeliers. The auditorium is steeply pitched to provide an unimpeded sight line, and the orchestra pit is recessed under the stage so the mouths of tubas cannot eclipse the legs of the chorines. Despite its huge capacity-bigger than any house on Broadway-no seat is more than 92 ft. from the stage. Designed by Chicago Architects Rapp & Rapp, the Fisher also has a giant aluminum acoustical...
...Actor Steiger give restrained and intelligent performances; Actor Stuart Whitman, known heretofore as just a passing ripple on Hollywood's Muscle Beach, is perspicaciously cast as the Cain-marked protagonist; and Director Guy (The Angry Silence) Green unerringly walks a tightrope of good taste across the snake pit...
...scamps with serpents' teeth. The emancipated heroine, Hypatia Tarleton, says, "I just don't want to be bothered about either good or bad. I want to be an active verb.'' Actually, she and the others are passive wordlings caught in a brilliant, bottomless Edwardian conversation pit. But if the people are stationary, the props are animated. Crockery smashes, airplanes crash, cocked pistols emerge from portable Turkish baths...