Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After these two successes of the parts is synonymous with the success of the actors. Myra Durkin is Patience, the maid who can't bother being effete because she has to milk cows. Her voice, her rich, perfectly controled voice is meant for more than small stages in close auditoriums. Her flat-footed progression across the boards is comedy. If, and forgive me for this fussy stipulation, only if Miss Durkin is off-stage what she is on, I should like to marry her. I might not have included this declaration in these columns but for a standing belief...
...though for him certainly not unique, lyricism when she performs. Sharon Dennis, Carolyn Firth, and Juliet Cunningham are all excellent as Rapturous Maidens, displaying a sense of ensemble which has thus far eluded a good many professional companies. The officers of the dragoon guards likewise observe each other on stage. Theirs is the comedy of loud plainmindedness, of just enough mugging at just the right pace. James Paul in particular commends himself as Lieut., the Duke of Dunstable...
There was throughout such splendid coordination between James Burt's stage direction and Vincent Canzoneri's work with the traditionally polished orchestra that any attempt to resolve the two and pick at each must be regarded as undialectic and moreover silly. The old criticism that Sullivan's score is a bit churchy is true but in this instance besides the point. The orchestra has a certain lightness, a brassiness of tone which deletes much of what is sentimental in the music...
While The Little Foxes is still stage-sturdy, its angle of vision is the leftism of the '30s, since it assumes that the root of all evil is economic. A 1939 audience would have understood the play as an attack on predatory capitalist morality. A 1967 audience is more likely to relish it as an indictment of greed, hate, and the Just for power at anytime, in any place...
...Wheels. Most such churches begin by taking over a drive-in theater on Sunday morning. Minister, choir and organ perch atop the projection booth or a makeshift stage, and the sermon is piped into cars through window speakers. Among the most impressive of several new churches specially built for drive-in congregations are Schuller's Garden Grove Community Church (designed by Richard Neutra) and the glass-walled Trinity Reformed Church in Kent, Wash., which will accommodate up to 300 people in cars parked outside. Both Garden Grove and Trinity Reformed also serve worshipers seated in the nave...