Word: prosceniums
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...Fine Arts Center is going up, with organ practice rooms, a broadcasting station and a lawn-terraced amphitheater. The University of Arkansas is getting a Fine Arts Center that will have everything from glass-walled galleries to a theater whose seats and stage can be changed at will from proscenium to theater-in-the-round...
This may sound a good deal like the "theater-in-the-round" idea. In many respects it is, but actually "The New Theater" is a compromise between "theater-in-the-round" and the present proscenium stage. A lot of the new stage is still hidden from the audience--enough to allow for rapid changes of scenery. According to Mr. Wright's manifesto, which is posted near the model, scenery is built below the stage and rises on ramps to the playing area, which is equipped with a revolving disk. The "fly gallery" above the stage is completely eliminated...
...studio audience recoiled under a shower of dried beans and pin feathers; then a covey of dead quail and a stuffed cow flopped down onto the stage. There were shotgun blasts, scampering midgets, severed arms, proscenium-climbing cupids and baboons in full cry. Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, the rowdiest, slap-happiest zanies in show business, had moved into Milton Berle's time spot (Tues. 8 p.m. E.D.T., NBC TV) with their first television show...
...that he can never again speak on "Saint Joan" without recalling the Workshop's production of the play. It has had a memorable effect on all who saw it. Presented in Sanders, a theater which offers some of the most unreasonable handicaps ever placed on a college group (no proscenium, no sconery allowed, no backstage, no dressing rooms, no curtains, etc.), the VTW production made inspirational use of its handicaps. Aside from the excellent cast now working "ensemble," the real coup do theatre was made by the designer, John Holabird, who moved his audience out into the transept of Memorial...
...Roberts as Josephine, daughter to the Captain, beloved of Ralph Rackstraw, but promised to Sir Joseph Porter. Miss Roberts possesses a fine set of high notes, but she all to frequently let her coloratura get away from her and succeeded in casting her words into some oblivion above the proscenium...