Word: proscenium
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...theatre is the first of its kind in the world. Of basically circular design, the structure will have an inflated roof and a seating capacity of about 1800. Provisions are incorporated for both proscenium and arena production, and facilities for concerts...
Under the Metropolitan Opera's harsh proscenium lights, the interior of St. Katherine's Church looked sadly tattered. The backdrop sagged, and the huge carved chair from which Walther von Stolzing sings his trial song in the first act of Die Meistersinger was pushed to one side. But out in the cavernous auditorium sat a crowd of invited guests, waiting for another kind of trial song. The occasion: the Met's first public talent audition...
Designed by Hugh A. Stubbins and Associates, Cambridge architects, the building will be a brick and glass structure with an overlay of white screening. An ingenious mechanism will give the main auditorium unique adaptability, enabling it to become an Elizabethan theatre, a proscenium, or a theatre in the round...
...permanent theatre will be equipped for three-quarters round as well as proscenium arch production which utilize the conventional rectangular stage-a unique innovation in design. The theatre will set 1800 people at prices which will be kept "as low as possible...
MacLeish set his play in "a traveling circus which has been on the roads of the world for a long time." Boris Aronson has complied by designing a circus maximus that is the finest set of the season. Doing away completely with a proscenium curtain, the set bulges out into the audience. A raked stage boasts a marvelously rhythmic series of ramps and stairs, culminating in a funambulist's platform that doubles as a modern counterpart of the old Greek drama's theologeion. There are ropes and pulleys, and part of the canvas tent...