Word: stagecraft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take Nickleby at full strength?four hours at the matinee, 4˝ in the evening?will leave the theater in a state very like rapture. This feeling of giddy awe comes partly from spending a day mesmerized by a brilliant troupe of actors, partly from the seductive effulgence of stagecraft, partly from the simultaneous tugs of farce and melodrama, laughter and tears...
...that more denials would only put reporters into a feeding frenzy. She knew that if Barnett had to prove the sapphic connection in court, she could organize a parade of witnesses who would keep the tabloids happy for weeks. So King decided that she herself must manage the stagecraft of her public humiliation. Her parents on one side, her husband Larry on the other wearing an expression of indecipherable calm, she faced a press conference and admitted the lesbian affair; was, she said, a "mistake." The homosexual rights movement may have curled its lip just then. And feminists, if they...
...general manager, who offered her a contract for two starring roles. Inexplicably, she turned him down. Her refusal started the soprano off on a long, wearing odyssey. On the way she studied the subtleties of her art with great teachers like Conductor Tullio Serafin and learned stagecraft from Luchino Visconti, whom she deeply loved...
After eight international tours that have covered IS nations, tumultuous motorcades and clamoring multitudes have become familiar when Pope John Paul II is on the road. But the papal procession across the Philippines last week-his ninth foreign journey and his first to Asia-also displayed ample elements of stagecraft along with spontaneous outpourings of devotion...
...tour, has settled down comfortably in the higher altitudes of the Top 40, and these hardy perennials of British rock's golden age have just embarked on a two-month concert tour of the States. All this is ample testament to the surprising staying power of their antic stagecraft, disheveled musicianship and-particularly -to the cheeky satire and sideways poignancy of Ray Davies' music...