Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote The Airborne in London in 1943, on assignment from the Eighth Air Force. When it was over, Composer Blitzstein jumped to the stage and was embraced by Mr. Welles. The audience, in Manhattan's municipally owned City Center last week, gave it what Manhattan music critics nervously (and somewhat grudgingly) referred to as an ovation. Consensus of the critics: as a symphony, The Airborne hardly got off the ground...
...that's how Hootenannies began, according to Woodrow Wilson ("Woody") Guthrie. Last week one of the shoutin'est Hootenannies ever was held in Irving Plaza's faded second-floor dance hall a block from Manhattan's Union Square. On stage were 20 folk singers with guitars, mandolins and harmonicas. In the audience were 1,000 men, women & children (some also with guitars) who sang along with them. Smallest and loudest of them all was curly-haired Woody Guthrie. He sang...
Triple Decker. Paris shows "open" on three successive nights. The first night is a dress-and dressmakers'-rehearsal. The invited audience is made up of important couturiers, stage designers, technicians, anyone who has contributed a necklace or a knickknack.* The performance is halted to smooth out wrinkles in the costumes, or (often at the most exciting moments) to take publicity shots...
...well as a wider public. But theaters very far off the beaten track have tough sledding, and some, like the Pigalle in Montmartre, have never had a hit. Many theaters, furthermore, are "typed"-the saying goes that at the Palais-Royal there is always a bed on the stage. At the Palais-Royal it used to be traditional, too, for a nude woman to dash across the stage once during the evening. That was what the regular customers came for; but they got bored waiting, and requested the management to announce the precise hour of the spécialit...
Poor pay is general in the French theater. The biggest stars earn no more than $40 a night; the star of the state-controlled Odeon earns $40 a month; bit parts fetch $2 or $3 a performance. The notorious morality of the French stage rests partly on the fact that many an actress resorts to classic means to keep alive...