Word: proscenium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sets Overhead. The end of the affair did not come until Saarinen's premature death in 1961, but by then final plans were all but complete. Bunshaft, as Mr. Outside, had given the theater a mighty proscenium entrance with a towering concrete truss that spans 150 ft., yet rests on only two columns. Fronting it is a shimmering reflecting pool, set off by British Sculptor Henry Moore's Reclining Figure (see color...
...most glittering audiences in Kansas City history-packed the 2,500-seat Music Hall through the two other performances that followed, Julius Caesar conquered resoundingly. The old hall was dressed up to look like an opera house, with garlands of flowers ringing the grand tier and an Egyptian-style proscenium jutting out to the apron of the stage. Leading a competent cast of 200, Metropolitan Opera Bass-Baritone Giorgio Tozzi and Brooklyn-born Soprano Evelyn Lear, making her U.S. opera debut after an admirable, eight-year career in Europe, managed Handel's long, difficult, rapid-fire arias with fine...
KING LEAR (Caedmon) is a regal fool who topples into the abyss of unreason to discover the naked truth of the human condition. Paul Scofield is a cool, knowledgeable, self-contained actor who would not dream of venturing past the proscenium arch. In consequence, the recording neither sears nor scars; it might be a useful high school text...
...Acoustician Corbin failed to note that the speakers, most of which are located in the proscenium rather than in the ceiling, are used for musical comedy, not for opera and ballet performances...
Never has a pinkie been crooked with more elaborate Lahr-di-da, or sexagenarian toes been more agile in the choreography of cowardice. In one panic, Lahr scrambles halfway up the proscenium arch and hangs there, glaring down in 20-foot-high dudgeon at the scoundrels who have treed him. Throughout the musical, he emits those lecherous gurgles, dying squawks and goosy yelps that used to be the cheek-in-tongue counterpoint to vaudeville, and burlesque. What makes Lahr the king of clowns is, above all, his masterly word-and-action timing, as when he off-handedly tosses...