Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Director Chris Arnold has several advantages in putting On the Town on the stage: a number of good voices and as many good actors, including some surprisingly competent bit players. He has an an imaginative and ambitious choreographer in Chet D'Elia, and in Judy Friedlander a costume mistress who evokes early Forties styles exceedingly well. But there are also disabilities. For one thing, the stage is not much larger than a hopscotch square, and it shows up any amateur faults in the show's drive for professional slickness...
Naturally the stage cramps D'Elia's choreography, which suffers from overambition. The dancers are good, being recruits from the Boston Conservatory and refugees from the Jazz Dance Workshop, but they have so much complex work to do in this ballet-heavy musical that they don't always move sharply or together. The girls tend to be more effective than...
...gets bogged down in period parody of New York night clubs. A director can help the long night-club scene by pacing it almost out of existence. But this particular director has pacing problems which result from the long scene changes; there is no way of getting around the stage waits but a little more traveling music from the orchestra would help...
Although his questioners could think of qualifications to the liberal-labor coalition, few came up with alternatives. One SDS-er suggested that white radicals should arm and intensify the impact of ghetto riots. (It was suggested after the meeting that the radicals would do better to stage an armed invasion of the suburbs; hopefully, the ghetto residents would follow...
...deserves to be looked at in its own right. It has happened mostly on campus; the Left has evolved mostly off-campus. Between the two developments, political activism has risen to greater heights on campus than in any earlier decade. But it is confrontation politics that has set the stage and given the volume of numbers to the protest. The Left has been associated with it but the totality of the approach has not been essentially Left, with its emphasis on ideology, organization, and activity throughout society. Nor has the Left supplied large numbers of participants. The Left has joined...