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...apex of a cycle that includes the notoriety. But this is the last thing I will ever write about Don Juan. Now I am going to be a sorcerer for sure. Only my death could stop that." It is a ro mantic role, this anthropological ges ture across a pit of entities which, in a different age, would have been called demons. Will Castaneda become the Dr. Faustus of Malibu Beach, attended by Mephistopheles in a sombrero? Stay tuned in for the next episode. In the meantime, his books have made it hard for readers ever to use the word...
...Mini-Met stage is one that many Girl Scout theater troupes might find modest. Housed beneath the Vivian Beaumont Theater in the Lincoln Center complex, the Forum is a tiny arena theater seating 280. There is no proscenium and no orchestra pit; the musicians, instrumentalists as well as chorus, must squeeze onto a narrow balcony suspended above the stage...
...music of Suffragette, written by Rubins and arranged by Peter Larson, orchestrator for the production, combines Alf and Charlie's music hall ditties with traditional theater music. With a full-pit orchestra and a strong emphasis on brass and cymbals, many of the songs have a marching, ballad-like quality which communicates the spirit of commitment that is at the center of Suffragette...
Last week in Germany such a work appeared. The orchestra pit of the Hamburg State Opera was empty, and up on the stage strode the weirdest bunch of non-human heavies since Wagner peopled his Ring cycle with gnomes, mermaids, dragons and bears. Five 21-ft. chrome-and-steel towers reeled in patterns that owed less to choreography than to the movement of armored tank columns. They were directed from backstage by electronic remote control, and were adorned with mirrors (20 to a tower) that caught the sunburst of spots, strobes and color projectors that beamed down upon them...
...show biz nightmare of ineptitude - jugglers who drop their props, dancers who bump into each other and acrobats who cannot hold each other up. The decrepit old black blues singer and guitarist faces the back of the stage, thumps his foot, forgets all his music and caroms into the pit. Perhaps the funniest skit is one featuring Toulouse-Lautrec, who slithers around with shoes on his knees and tries desperately to heft a huge canvas onto an easel beyond his reach...