Word: stagecrafter
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...measuring progress and promise. No fair. The Bangles are a long way from Ticket to Ride, never mind In My Life. It is still early in the tour--their first as U.S. headliners--but the accomplishment of their guitar playing isn't fully matched by any assurance of stagecraft, and the vocals (shared by all four members of the band) risk being swamped in the amiable uncertainties of the show. The band is aware of such shortfalls of technique. "We pick up a guitar, and we may not be as good as the person next to you," says Vicki Peterson...
Eric Ronis skillfully directed the play with unusual stagecraft. The audience sits on the floor (a few can sit on chairs in the corner) and the action frequently shifts from the front to back of the Holmes Living Room. This type of space manipulation is neither confusing nor disturbing, but rather gives the audience more of a sense of progression and reality in the play. Occasionally, when characters enter through windows in night scenes, for example, the brief but cool outside breeze allows viewers easily to imagine the cold northern Great Britain setting. Also, sound effects that come from outside...
Moreover, continue the Administration and its supporters, there is more than a little stagecraft in the Soviet temper tantrum. Moscow is deliberately exaggerating the troubles afflicting East-West relations. Many West Europeans are nervous about Reagan's hard line, and the Soviets are trying to exploit those anxieties so that Bonn, London and Paris will distance themselves politically from Washington...
...leafy college town, about as far as you can get from show business, which seems to provide the themes and setting for most of Broadway's current musicals. And in a theatrical atmosphere where producers will spend millions on state-of-the-glitz stagecraft but not a penny for tribute to the ordinary issues that animate ordinary people, Baby makes do with a cast of 15, an undersized orchestra and sets that consist largely of diaphanous draperies constantly awhirl to signify scene changes...
Reagan is too hard on his California colleagues who, after all, built the movie sets that convinced people of the reality of George Gipp and Drake McHugh. And as Commissioner Gliedman's views demonstrate, the triumph of stagecraft lies in the change from perception affecting reality to perception being reality. The only question now is why the Potemkin plan should be limited to slum housing when it could just as well be applied to all kinds of problems that bedevil officialdom...