Word: scrim
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Despite Rocky's body magic, the insatiable Frank proceeds to seduce both Janet and Brad. These indelicacies are mimed in silhouette behind a scrim. Assorted voyeurs and participants include a hunchbacked butler, Riff-Raff (Ritz O'Brien, stage name of Richard O'Brien) and girl slaves...
...refer to them when he paints. His aim is to recapture an era and a place: rural Ontario, where he grew up. The people are "a memory-they've floated back into this situation one more time." Their slightly stylized figures produce a kind of stage-front scrim against a photographic backdrop. The results have a peculiar authority, as hard to account for as it is easy to recognize...
...that Jack Ruby, All-American Boy is anything like an indictment of Dallas. Or that John Logan's play deals with conspiracy theories or even with Lee Harvey Oswald. The assassin appears only as a menacing rifleman waiting behind a scrim, and then as a sweating prisoner led down the garage ramp to be shot himself. The focus of this elaborate and populous production is Jack Ruby, the bloody little Sunday morning angel of vengeance...
With the orchestra arrayed behind a scrim at the back of the stage, Gene Nelson presides over the evening as master of ceremonies and song-and-dance man. Larry Kert is exceptional-especially in Maria, which he sang in the original cast of West Side Story...
...actually on film, and because the image is too impressionistic, it may be the least effective part of the scene. Later in the second act, film projections-being used for the first time at the Met-are much more powerful. The spectator first sees an eye in the scrim curtain. Like the opening in a Faberge Easter egg, it reveals colts romping in a field of daisies, hunters on the chase, a shadow man and woman walking hand in hand through a forest-all fine, unselfconscious, pre-Freudian images for the awakening love of Dido and Aeneas. The cinematic montage...