Word: scrim
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Sopranos Kathryn Bouleyn and Kathryn Gamberoni stood out in the title roles. Christopher Keene, an important young American conductor, led the score with considerable sensitivity. Director Frank Corsaro captured the lyricism of Fennimore and Gerda with a light, poetic touch. He staged the action behind a scrim, using film and slides to indicate the passage of time and interpolating mimed action during the orchestral interludes...
...eyes, all very eerie at 20 feet tall), and in more ingenious ways as well: as a huge contact sheet when Carbone is taking his pictures of Lulu; for a photo-montage providing a dimension of memory to a sex scene between Lulu and Louis Lebow; as a scrim behind which silhouettes meet in confrontation; finally, for the stunning reappearance of the eyeball, the motif of the play, serving at this point as an exclamation point for Lulu's murder...
...company of 13 singers and dancers, backed by an 18-piece band behind a scrim, worked its way through about 20 Ellington numbers in the course of two hours. They seemed to have all they needed to conjure up a '40s nightclub--dim lights, thick smoke, and swinging music. But they missed the intimacy of a nightclub-sized area; the Loeb stage is pretty forbidding, especially when it's set up as a proscenium instead of the modified theater-in-the-round Loeb directors often choose. Michael Der Manuelian, Ellington's director, didn't even try to protect his performers...
...rendition of "The Ladies Who Lunch," a biting blast about bored wives that is quite possibly the best song in the show. Landers lacks the sheer vocal power required to bring it off, and she was drowned out by the massive and over-amplified 37-piece orchestra behind the scrim. This exasperating fate befell several other members of the cast...
Suddenly both Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan were encouraging themselves with visions of Jimmy Carter's vulnerability. All through the primaries, Carter had appeared ideologically elusive, so mixing liberal and conservative signals that the net effect was an image of enigmatic moderation, veiled by a scrim of "decency" and "love...