Word: pits
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...Does the idea of drinking graham cracker milk gruel make you laugh or feel ill or both? What about accidentally crushing a mole's skull under your heel and hearing it crack and then putting its severed paw into water, like an avocado pit? Or watching someone shoot staples into their eyeballs for beauty? Or eviscerating a small-horse-like thing and discovering embryos? Your answers will go a long way in determining how you will take to this book...
...Mounting all eight works in their entirety is a mighty task and one the company has never before attempted. This time, 79 actors play 264 roles in a saga that uses three theaters - the Barbican, the Pit and the Young Vic - 400 costumes, five liters of stage blood and five severed heads. Those who buy tickets to the whole thing get to watch almost 24 hours of theater...
...scene: a shadowy place, with looming 20 ft. trees. A deep pit in the ground. People speaking quickly, rushing by, intent on completing their tasks. A cross between a sinister mystery and an office scene? No. This is the Loeb Mainstage, a week and a half before opening night of Into the Woods, a musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine...
...Furthermore, not only is Sondheim’s music notoriously difficult for performers to master, but the audience may come in with pre-formed expectations from the widely distributed video of the original Broadway production. Innovation, then, is essential, lest the production sink into the pit of slavish imitation. The Loeb Mainstage is a cavernous space that has swallowed up many a smaller production and, like all student shows in the venue, Into the Woods must attempt to fill it with a budget of only five thousand dollars, a figure that has not been adjusted since the 1980s. It?...
...back to the theater, slightly more than a week before tonight’s opening. The hole in the ground? Merely the orchestra pit. The 20 ft. trees? They’re made of painted slats of wood attached to wires. According to Marsh, set designs went into production in November so they would be ready for Mainstage applications in December. Building the set officially started around February, though the task was complicated by the fact that all productions performing in the Loeb Drama Center share shop space. Schedules had to be coordinated. The production began setting...