Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...progressive colleges, with their concerned and alienated students. Painfully aware that the Nixon-Agnew "law and order" appeal wasn't going over so well in Massachusetts, party bosses had imported four Negroes, complete with frisbie-sized "Nixon's The One" buttons, to sit in the audience. On the stage, Senator Edward Brooke and black Congressional candidate Allen Freeman added a liberal touch...
...rest cannot conceal the fact that Richard Nixon is an unattractive man. As he strolled up the center aisle of the Somerset, wisps of curly black Nixon hair were barely visible between the shoulders of the tall secret service men who surrounded the candidate. When Nixon finally reached the stage, he stood alone, unconcealed, pathetic...
...Life is what you do while you're waiting to die/ Life is how the time goes by," she sings, her voice throbbing through the loudspeaker. The orchestra pulsates and the other people on stage stomp their feet in time and join in the song. There is no set on the stage and no subtlety in the musical number: the man whose story we are going to see is a man possessed by the most basic of passions. But Zorba is only one man and not at the center of Prince's show; his passions...
...share the stage with some other people, among them Maria Karnilova. This is the first time in Miss Karnilova's career (which includes performances varied as a stripper in Gypsy and Tevye's wife in Fiddler on the Roof) that we see enough of her to leave the theatre satisfied. As Hortense, the French lady on the hill who lets Zorba share her bed, she becomes a vision of lonely fortitude in the face of life's injustice. In one scene, during a song that tells of the "pretty admirals" who kept company with her in the distant past...
...strength in the acting, it is Prince's staging that dominates Zorba. I am convinced that this man knows more about building a musical scene than anyone else around. In this show he has chosen to frame the action with music, so that at times one is hardly conscious songs are beginning and ending. For this purpose he keeps a chorus of sorts on stage nearly the whole time. The singers and dancers drift in and out of the action or often just sit on the high platforms that are a permanent fixture upstage. Leading this group is Lorraine Serabian...