Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undone book, badly done music, and smashingly done performances by two megatons of the U.S. musical stage, Mary Martin and Robert Preston. The Fourposter, on which thfs tale of a long-married, much-loving couple is based, is little more than a prop for their talents...
...canto and the reasons for its revival are chronicled in a lively new book by Musicologist Henry Pleasants, The Great Singers (Simon & Schuster; $7.50). The first prima donnas of bel canto were not donnas at all but male sopranos and contraltos. These castrati, who commanded the center stage of opera for more than 100 years, until the end of the 18th century, constituted about 70% of all male singers. They postured and strutted on the stage like peacocks improvising elaborate vocal filigrees, inserting grace notes or unaccompanied passages, some of which lasted as long as the aria itself. They combined...
Blau and Irving had tried too hard with too little. Their company (including their own wives) was unseasoned, their stage-an apron affair-was too difficult, and their repertory (Brecht, Sartre, Lorca) too demanding. By last week, with all of their efforts widely panned, Blau resigned, wrote the center's trustees: "The climate is no longer right for me to do what I came to do. Perhaps my going will clear the atmosphere so the theater may move freshly in whatever course of action it must take now." Irving will stay on as sole director at least until...
Representatives of 51 nations at the Kennedy Round negotiations in Geneva last week heaved a collective sigh of relief when President Johnson ordered an immediate reduction of U.S. duties on imported watch movements and most types of sheet glass. Politically and psychologically, the news came at a strategic stage of the talks-the eleventh hour-which have been held since 1963 under the aegis of GATT, the 20-year-old General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...
...which the stylized manner of the Monteverdi could not even approach. The multilingual text was mostly unintelligible, but apparently Passaggio portrays the "passage" of a single character, called "She," at odds with and seemingly at the mercy of a heartless and mindless society, represented by choruses next to the stage and at the sides of the house. The hostility of the chorus was evident from the moment its opening hisses, murmurs, and shouts began to fill the darkened theatre, while both Her helplessness and humanness came through largely from Miss Mandac's presence on stage. She turned in a superb...