Word: proscenium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway-no seat is more than 92 ft. from the stage. Designed by Chicago Architects Rapp & Rapp, the Fisher also has a giant aluminum acoustical screen that drops from the balcony ceiling, reducing its capacity by 402 seats in order to improve the conditions for intimate drama. Similarly, the proscenium arch is made of sliding panels so that the stage can be narrowed for small shows and broadened for spectacles...
...Hancock, the director, has, if anything, intensified this somewhat incongruous vaudeville element (wholly serived. I deem, from American productions of Die Dreigroschenoper): marquee lights glitter from the proscenium, news of each scene is projected on a screen from slides (a Ia Chaplin), and poor old Maggie Ziskind, cast as the Widow Leosadia Begbick, a saloon-keeping trollop, has to bundle up in ratty Lotte Lenya togs and belt out a couple of those sour songs that were Mrs. Weill's stock-in-trade. (The words for most of these songs are by Mr. Bentley, the music--as Wall...
...buildings disappeared: the Mather squash courts, Cambridge tenements behind Dunster, the Radcliffe Health Center, and, most lamentably, Cronin's, fell to the wreckers. The University expanded upward, with seven-story Quincy (irreverently dubbed the "aircraft carrier by the Charles"), 12-story Leverett, the ten-story Health Center, and the proscenium of the Loeb. In addition to buildings, the Program elicited funds for new professorships, athletic fields and endowment--but could not keep tuition down. The class started at $1,000 and continued for three years at $1,250, but escaped the $1,520 rate announced last December...
There will, however, be glimpses of Rocky on the national proscenium from time to time-he will, for example, campaign for his friend, Jim Mitchell, in New Jersey next fall. But for the present, Rocky will play it cool. His gubernatorial prospects seem bright. The Democrats in New York are split in a savage intraparty fight, and no candidate of any note has appeared to challenge Rockefeller. If he can better his 1958 plurality of 573,000 votes, he will be sitting pretty for 1964. Says his good friend, New York Senator Kenneth Keating: "I don't know whether...
...Pirates of Penzance is not, to my mind, one of the better G & S books. This production overcomes the script's defects, despite a few of its own, and provides an entertaining, although not spectacularly so, evening to open the Loeb proscenium theatre...