Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While he was delivering his lecture last Wednesday, a woman walked on stage and drank a glass of water set aside for him, according to Sally Gaskill, a tutor in Mather House who organizes the lectures. She said Cage ignored the woman, who eventually returned to her seat...
...participant asked Cage what he does when fans grow too affectionate. He said when members of a Milan audience walked on stage and began to kiss him several years ago, he simply ignored them until they returned to their seats...
TALKING HEADS: BED AMONG THE LENTILS (PBS, Feb. 12, 9 p.m. on most stations). Maggie Smith holds the stage for nearly an hour, portraying a vicar's frustrated wife in a monologue written and directed by Alan Bennett...
...merry wives of Windsor burn him with their tapers. In setting this black comedy to music, Verdi and his librettist, Arrigo Boito, degrade the hero still further. "Lord, make him impotent," the women chorus as everyone flails and pummels the fallen hero. And yet after his punishment on the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music last week, a wonderful thing happened. Falstaff mysteriously rose above his tormentors and soared into space, a paunchy carouser suddenly transformed into a kind of pagan god of pleasure...
...intensely personal drama, clearly sexual and even slightly sadistic. "Hold your paunch, celebrate it," he instructed Maxwell at one point during rehearsals. "For Falstaff, it is not grossness, it is greatness, virility." Bearing out Epstein's point, the modest dimensions of the BAM theater enabled Stein to stage Verdi's last masterpiece as a kind of chamber work, with the stage action fast-moving and intricately choreographed. The closeness of the proceedings also gives added prominence to Richard Armstrong's intense and hard-driving conducting of what is perhaps Verdi's most complex orchestral score...