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...auditorium, the Panovs performed on a small, bare platform. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra played on a raised stage behind them, causing Conductor Robert Zeller to cast uneasy glances across his shoulder to check music-dance synchronization. Temporarily blinded by a megawatt supertrooper rock-show spotlight, Galina lost sight of her husband and missed a lift during the grand pas de deux from The Nutcracker. " 'Where are you, Valery?' I cried to myself," she said later. However, in The Lady and the Hooligan, a Shostakovich ballet, Galina's feathery pirouettes and Panov's dramatic aerial twists...
...spotlight is aimed only where either the director or the lighting man orders it; therefore, one has little to do with where it goes...
Weight watching is not the only extra pressure on the wrestlers. The sport puts the spotlight on just two men at a time, and how a man wins can be almost as important as whether he wins at all. If he pins an opponent, his team picks up six points; if he cannot pin his opponent but wins the match by outpointing him, his team will get only three or four points, depending on how much he dominated the contest. "A football player may go out and play a lousy game," says Chesbro, "but if the team wins...
Dave Bell, Jim, McMahon and Steve Degdigian took over the spotlight 90 seconds later, combining on a perfect passing play. Bell swept into the corner with the puck and directed a centering pass to McMahon, who then slipped the disc to Degdigian in front. Three to nothing after...
...invaded by an errant moonship. Genevieve, still puzzling over her characterization, changes her wardrobe frequently and is not above trying to pinch Co-Star Monique Van Vooren's best songs as well as all the attention. "Genevieve," marveled an onlooker, "has an almost perfect working relationship with the spotlight." She has had a hand in other facets of the show too. It was she and John who thought of casting Old Friend Mark Lawhead, well under 5 ft., as a robot. "He's for the people from Rhode Island," she said. The show is not scheduled to open...