Word: showing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...produce a genuine hit. A woman with a breathy voice made a series of subtle ads ("Vixen-is she woman or animal"-pant-pant) for the local radio stations. By August the theater owners knew they were riding a good thing. So many tourists were flocking to the show that the owners could jack the prices to twice their original level...
...what he does as linked with the sexual revolution, radical polities and drugs. He finds working in Cambridge important because the city represents the very rationality that is choking us. "What's happening on stage must always be alive. That's why we don't have rehearsals anymore. The show is a dramatic moment, whose components are actors and an audience involved in time and space by what happens on stage. When an improvisation goes badly, the audience feels as badly as we do. So that dramatic moment cannot be approximated in a rehearsal...
...apparent that Albert has conceptions of the theater for which our old friend The Proposition may not be the best vehicle. With Albert directing a program of psychic betterment, with the cast believing in the show, and with the new dynamic of improvisational theater to involve the audience, something big should happen...
...show is basically just a happier edition of the old Proposition. It is still funny, but not vital, and still concerned, but neither political nor socially significant...
...this job because I believe in the form of improvisational theatre. But improvisational theatre is like a magic show, because we don't actually improvise from scratch. And the audience knows that the rabbit just doesn't appear. But how did it get there? A good magician, like a good director, uses illusion to achieve effect. People get pleasure out of seeing The Proposition, but they are not fulfilled...