Word: stagecrafter
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...they fail to fulfill adequately certain well-defined roles the show suffers. A critic should move with those two figures--producer and director--as they give form to the production. For a producer the key problem is finding competent designers and technicians for every aspect of the show's stagecraft, while the director must select actors capable of turning in solid, creditable performances. The former, if experienced will know which lighting designers might be interested and capable of giving the show what it needs. If inexperienced, he starts from scratch and hopes his roommates have hidden talents with nails...
...multiples thereof (6/8 and 9/12 are some of the other meters employed). For good measure, in both senses of the word, Sondheim has also thrown in such ancient techniques as canons, fuguettos and Greek chorus. What makes it all work, aside from Producer-Director Harold Prince's stagecraft, is Sondheim's uncanny ability to put a softly dimpled melody at the service of a sharp-chinned lyric. As when the middle-aged widower Fredrik Egerman ponders the seemingly insurmountable virginity of his young second wife...
...elimination of the brief epilogue in which Hoffmann is found in a drunken stupor, overwhelmed by his failures. Instead, the final curtain goes to the triumphant Dr. Miracle, who has just caused the poor Antonia to sing herself to death. In one of the chanciest bits of operatic stagecraft seen in New York in years, Dr. Miracle miraculously pops up on the outer rail of the orchestra pit, towers spectacularly over the conductor, and laughs his final laugh of evil victory...
...sheer stagecraft. Treasury Secretary John Connally's stopover in Japan last week rivaled a Kabuki drama. Two weeks before his arrival, rumors began emanating from the U.S. and Japan: in exchange for lifting the American import surcharge, Connally would demand that Japan revalue the yen upward by 15%, reduce the number of color television sets, automobiles and other big-selling items it ships to the U.S., pay part of the cost of keeping U.S. forces in Japan and drop trade barriers against U.S. farm goods. The Tokyo press started referring to the Secretary as "Typhoon Connally...
...province, that because man has failed on earth God has failed too is common enough. According to individual taste, one can greet it with a hosannah, a miserere nobis or a sancta simplicitas. Bernstein, after all, is an artist and entertainer, not a theologian. But even his stagecraft, his taste and his music, despite many delights and flourishes, reflect a basic confusion...