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Second City rests on the sparest of theatrical trappings: a few bentwood chairs, a bit of lighting, a piano and six performers. At the start of one recent show, four of them are onstage as Soviet agents trained to imitate the people of Chicago. ("I am a full professor, so...
In one scene, entitled "Pickpocket's Nightmare," Marceau employs two black panels and black box. These props allow him to perform a marvellous illusion: while Marceau stands at one end of the panels, heartaches behind them, his hand arms appearing in physically impossible places: above the screens, across the length...
Then, like a general who seizes his enemies' weapons and turns them against his foes, Stockman grabbed some labeled boxes brought into the hearing room by Democratic Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, who had planned to use them as props for an attack on the President's budget. Brandishing one...
A confirmed bachelor who looks a bit like Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion, McGowan lived in rented apartments for most of his life, but four years ago he bought a house in Georgetown and converted it into a revealing kind of private playland. Pushbuttons control all manner of gadgets: lighting...
Even dedicated arm benders find it necessary to spend some time behind their desks, of course, and so a variation on full-fledged partygoing was developed: the Drop-By. The ingredients for a successful Power Drop-By include a late arrival, a chauffeured limousine and media props. Defense Secretary Caspar...