Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alone is enough to make the show worth seeing. Her name is Meg Meglathery, and she plays one of the weird sisters. She is marvelous. Tart as some of her own quince jam and so tiny that she is virtually two-dimensional, Miss Meglathery bustles self-containedly about the stage amid heavy traffic of corpses, cops, criminals, and intended victims. Her voice is crystal clear, her demeanor is perfect and her timing is unfailingly accurate...
...memorandum suggests surveys and questionnaires, medical statistics, psychiatric interviews with volunteers, and summaries of anonymous medical records as possible methods of investigation. Mnookin emphasized that the study is still in a "very preliminary stage...
Visually, Von Karajan's conception was akin to the antiscenic expressionism of postwar Bayreuth productions, with a few meager props on a bare stage to suggest rather than spell out the setting. But he went beyond the Bayreuth style in meshing musical values to stage pictures. The music, too, frequently sounded spare and delicate, engaging the listener's imagination rather than overwhelming...
...Papas, playing Clytemnestra, is an actress of chained intensity. She bears herself with the regal poise of a statue by Praxiteles. Though her brows are as dark as doom, her profile is chiseled in luminous Pentelic marble. What she brings to Iphigenia is something that seldom exists on any stage: the adrenal flow of a mother's love and grief. When Clytemnestra learns that Iphigenia cannot be saved, she utters a howl of desolation that seems to be torn from her womb, as if a cycle of pain that had begun with the child's birth were ending...
...bound to be wondrously professional. But it is not inclined to be brassy, and Ron Porter's direction is nothing if not that. The quantity of dancing in Anything Goes is phenomenal. Some of the actors can't stop dancing even when the music ends. They float across the stage when they should walk, but they float so damn well, and so fast, that the trick is turned. And since the show is musically solid from "You're the Top" to "Take Me Back to Manhattan," all complaints have got to be qualified, if not out of existence, then temporarily...