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Last night the team held its first scrim mage. But it was only a half-field practice, since they had to set up nets on the Solders Field pitcher's mound...
Since the theater's arena stage has no orchestra pit, Conductor Thomas Nee had to direct his 30 musicians behind a scrim curtain at the rear of the set. He followed the action over stereophonic earphones, delivered his cues to a closed-circuit TV camera that the cast monitored on two concealed screens...
...concert hall itself has an encouraging feeling of intimacy despite the fact that its capacity approximately equals that of Boston's Symphony Hall. The concert organ is concealed behind a transparent scrim but can be illuminated for concerts. Unfortunately, the scrim itself slightly resembles the inside of a packing crate and reveals the shadowy figures of stage hands moving about in the midst of performances. It perhaps could be successfully replaced...
Spartacus, in fact, was more pantomime than dance-and silent-screen pantomime at that. From the first sledgehammer chord, accompanied by the projection of Rome's Colosseum on the scrim curtain, spectators might well have guessed that they were in for triumphal processions, slave girls, gladiators and courtesans, eye-rolling, tooth-gnashing and a dose of belly dancing. By Scene 2 of Act I, 16 corpses were sprawled about the stage...
Steven Lubin's tilted stage and scrim-filled set were flexible and just modest enough for the small area allotted them. The lighting done by Thomas Bever was unobtrusive, which for this show means good; but someone really should get that door to close by tomorrow night...