Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...and/or review almost all the summer play productions in the area for a good number of years, and my admiration for the impressive roster of achievements by both these groups is strong. But your letter contains so many errors and distortions that there is no choice but to set the record straight on some of them...
...first Shakespearean assignment, although he has wrought several nearmiracles with modern American works. And he has attacked Macbeth with freshness and, at times, audacity. He has given us a sufficiently fast-moving production of Shakespeare's fastest-moving play. The theatre quivers with excitement as characters swirl about the set, and race up and down the aisles to envelop the audience in the action (though this is carried somewhat to excess...
With the limited facilities for John Beck's serviceable set, director Julius Novick has deployed his charges with a resourceful hand. He has obviously striven for split-second timing in speech, gesture, and sound cues--a facet of the play that presents unusually frequent and tricky demands. His pacing never drags...
...Richard Nash, a major Broadway playwright, has fashioned an excellent screenplay, remarkably faithful to DuBose Heyward's libretto. And Oliver Smith has captured the flavor of Catfish Row in an authentic-looking, yet properly stylized set. The color, the lighting, Irene Sharaff's costumes--all beautiful. Andre Previn (winner of last year's Academy Award for his work on Gigi) did the arrangements, which bring a new fullness to the Gershwin score. They are lush in the best Hollywood tradition, but never maudlin...
Jubilee U.S.A. (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). For the jukebox . set - a regular hoedown with Country-Western caterwaulers from Nashville to Denver. M.C.: Eddy Arnold, "The Tennessee Plowboy...