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...well known, the open stage had to be diametrically opposed to a proscenium arrangement. The open stage presupposes seating on three sides, (sketch No. 1) while the proscenium is a picture frame arrangement, with the audience seated as though watching a movie (sketch...
Theaters have been built which accomodate these opposite forms of staging, such as the large theater in Malmo, Sweden. But in making this possible, large sections of seating are unused (sketch No. 3). Others designs for the "total" theater have been proposed from time to time. Since the seating capacity of out theater was purposely limited, it seemed illogical to abandon seats in order to accommodate flexibility. In other words, the theater should be truly convertible...
...longer than anyone else. Hanna is the timer, who computes the mathematical intricacies of matching dialogue to action and budgeting the exact number of frames necessary to build each joke and each dissolve. Barbera, who can draw almost as fast as he can talk, does the planning-stage sketch work, can create a fully plotted storyboard (a sort of cartoon outline with dialogue) in five hours...
...deflect inquiries into their private lives. ("I will tell you something," Elaine will say cooperatively, "but I warn you it is a lie.") Elaine has never remarried, and Mike is separated. Since neither makes any sort of conscious effort to search for new ideas-the birth of a sketch is usually accomplished with a simple remark, such as "You be a dentist. I'll be a patient"-they read miscellaneously. Nichols enjoys his subscription to Dog World, even though he has given up his Saint Bernard, reads Nancy Mitford and Mary McCarthy, never looks at Variety. Elaine is intermittently...
...those with a taste for such things, Powell's Music of Time is brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times. Nothing like Powell's enterprise has been seen in English letters since Dickens and Trollope went bashing out their three-decker serials. His talents are rare without being exotic. He is neither a visionary nor a voyeur, but an observer-civil, ironic, amused, curious. By now, he seems to know his characters so well that he has developed a sort of courtesy toward them. Critic Pritchett has warned him of this danger...