Word: stagecrafter
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Cheek to Cheek. The result was one of the best TV shows ever. Making his TV debut, Evans had to unlearn, in 30 hours of camera rehearsal, nearly all the stagecraft he had amassed in playing Hamlet 777 times on the legitimate stage. "In TV, it's all cheek to cheek," he says. "You can't stand away from another actor and project, like you do on the stage." NBC Director Albert McCleery's biggest job was "pulling down" Evans' projection to TV size. Both men were brilliantly successful, and Evans' famed clarity of diction...
...Fourposter is the story of a marriage. It is told in six unrelated scenes which take place at crucial points of the marriage and in which Mr. Cronyn's hair grows progressively thinner and his wife's grayer. The standard stagecraft is complemented by standard situations: the wedding night, the first child, the other woman, the wayward children, and the realization of age are the incidents on which the scenes are built...
...spring season at Manhattan's City Center* off to a very happy start. For what was never much of a play, The Male Animal seems, after twelve years, remarkably engaging entertainment. In chronicling the academic and domestic woes of a mild-mannered English professor, Nugent kept the stagecraft under enough control for Thurber to make all else seem delightfully muddled and periodically...
...McThing (by Mary Chase) reveals the author of Harvey in her accustomed whimsical mood. But though Mrs. Chase's fancy leaps, her stagecraft stumbles and shuffles; and though the playwright bangs about on a broomstick, what the play really needs is a broom...
...Mercedes (Germany): the oldest car in the show. Drexler called it "an amusingly solemn piece of stagecraft" with "a necklace of lights, bumpers, straps, horns-and handles, undecorated but nevertheless expressively decorative, as were the caps and goggles which used to ornament the serious motorist...