Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Pete Seeger came to Boston in August of 1968 to sing at a giant Gene McCarthy rally at Fenway Park, he introduced a song by noting that at one time radio stations purposely ignored it. Now, he said with considerable feeling, it had become one of the most popular songs around...
Fortunately, as Jackson points out. Texas prisons are being reformed and the conditions that gave impetus to these songs are rapidly disappearing. The prisoners don't sing the songs as often as they used to, and only the older inmates remember the days when men would sever their Achilles tendons in order to avoid slave labor in the cane and cotton fields. By recording the stories and songs of the prisoners, Jackson has provided a valuable record of one of the bleaker chapters in American history...
...master of the pause before Pinter was born. This sometimes defeats actors, but not the impeccably polished trio in this show. Roderick Cook, who devised and directed this production, has just the right air of bemused fatigue. He and his companions, Barbara Cason and Jamie Ross, sing and deliver their lines with sly, artful perfection. They help to make Oh Coward! the most marvelous party in town...
...then, when the Liberation came, as profiteers. D'Asteir de la Vigerie cherishes it as the one time he lived in a classless society because they were all outside society. Grave recalls that at the first gathering of what became the Resistance, they sang "The Internationale." "We had to sing something, and the Petainists had "The Marseillaise...
...most obvious alteration in Capobianco's new production is the elimination of the brief epilogue in which Hoffmann is found in a drunken stupor, overwhelmed by his failures. Instead, the final curtain goes to the triumphant Dr. Miracle, who has just caused the poor Antonia to sing herself to death. In one of the chanciest bits of operatic stagecraft seen in New York in years, Dr. Miracle miraculously pops up on the outer rail of the orchestra pit, towers spectacularly over the conductor, and laughs his final laugh of evil victory...