Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWEET CHARITY. Dancer Gwen Verdon once more erupts like a volcano on the U.S. musical stage, and Bob Fosse's choreography is sizzling with sly social comment, bubbling with inventive wit. Neil Simon's book, alas, lies dormant...
Thailand's importance really rests on its key position in the heart of Southeast Asia, and in the promise of its resources to create a genuine revolution before the Communists can dig in. If Viet Nam has reached Mao's Stage 3 of massed battles in the revolutionary manual, Thailand is still in Stage 1. That is the organization of insurrection of the grass roots-and the Thais have a chance to arrest it there. Though the gunfire now resounds in Viet Nam, the vital core on which all Southeast Asia depends, as a glance...
...power of the executive to decide issues in the secret stage of negotiations with other nations is growing all the time, and this, I fear, is going to impose new obligations on reporters and probably bring them even more into conflict with officials than in the past...
...chair, the shadow on her face never changes, and it looks not as if she has walked toward the audience but as if she has enlarged in proportion before our eyes. Babe moves the characters effortlessly in this fashion, almost as if he were editing a film on stage. Never allowing the confines of the set to interfere with his blocking, he doesn't hesitate to have a character circle a table the long or illogical way, if it gives needed visual emphasis to that character. In doing this, Babe gives The Pelican its own stage reality...
Vocally, the play builds in volume and intensity as it progresses. Babe has wisely chosen to have his actors underplay, forcing them to perform with self-discipline. The acting is amazing, considering that four of the five east-members are usually employed on the Harvard stage as comedians, and the fifth as a dancer. Emily Levine gives a spine-chilling performance as the mother, easily her best to date, and not once does she lapse into any of the mannerisms that have marked her last three performances. Susan Channing plays the daughter. Her sheer technical skill is amazing...