Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stage Fright Mars Fast Break Debut...
...Cradle Will Rock (by Marc Blitzstein; produced by Michael Myerberg) had trouble, ten years ago, finding a stage; Washington, for reasons never explained, ordered the original WPA production to "postpone" its opening. But once Orson Welles took it to Broadway, The Cradle had no trouble finding an audience. For if brash and biased, Marc Blitzstein's "play in music" about Steeltown's big bad boss, cringing sycophants and exulting strikers had zip and the Zeitgeist in its favor. It also had a good deal of theatrical novelty: a sceneryless stage that antedated Our Town's; Composer Blitzstein...
Much of The Senator's impudence toward politicians and politicking would probably seem rather thin on the stage, or in print. But it is so rare to see any national institution really slapped around, on the screen, that the picture seems not only very funny but very audacious...
...lead, Idamantes, with assurance and great ability, and acted the part as well. Even the love duets, usual stumbling-block for male impersonators in the opera, went well at her hands. Naney Trickey was excellent in the part of Ilia, fulfilling particularly well the difficult assignment of holding the stage alone for more than five minutes at the start of the opera. In the role of the sinister Electra, who has the best aria of the piece, a magnificent last-act preface to suicide, Paula Lenchner looked evil but sang with only moderate control and acted rather clumsily...
...Goldovsky's staging surpassed all his previous efforts. The sets, designed by Richard Rychtarik, ranged from a shipwreek on a rocky coast to the gloomy interior of a pagan cave-temple and included the effective device of magic lantern projection on a backdrop. Mr. Goldovsky made excellent use of the stage in his direction of the principals and chorus and in his use of a small but good-looking ballet, reaching the peak of his imagination in the storm scene and the finale, a would-be sacrifice of Idamantes in the temple. Leo Van Witsen's costumes were also outstanding...