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In a second kind of reaction against slice-of-life dramaturgy and realistic settings, Wilder dispensed almost entirely with scenery and props. "In a 1941 exposition of his theory of drama, he said a play should be aimed at the group mind and be based on pretense. Later he wrote...
Popping a pop-rock cassette into the tape deck, Elton props his feet next to the television and watches the Bond Street shoppers through the tinted windows of his Rolls-Royce Phantom. "Turn here," he instructs the chauffeur, and as the burnished ark glides to a halt, Elton hikes his...
The Bolshoi Ballet is well into its fourth U.S. tour in 16 years. The Moiseyev folk dancers are regular visitors to America. Nureyev, Makarova, Baryshnikov, Vishnevskaya and Rostropovich are now residents in the West. What more could Russia possibly offer American audiences? The Bolshoi Opera, for one. Though in recent...
For its American premiere, 80 mammoth crates, each the size of a truck, were shipped across the Atlantic. They contained 400 wigs, 70 white gowns for the ball in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, a 14-ft.-wide chandelier for Prokofiev's War and Peace, plus more than 350...
Halstead's assignment was to try to "portray the real girls journalistically, not stylistically." In his quest for the genuine, he sometimes found unusual props or received unexpected help. Spanish Heiress Carmen Ordóñez de Rivera blossomed while swinging from-of all things-a block and tackle...