Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There wasn't any door for the damned to hammer on, and the Second Empire mantlepiece "bronze atrocity" was still in the papier mache stage, and two stark spotlights caught the players in a cross-fire. But these things would be rectified by the final rehearsal. The drama itself is an achievement...
Robert Scher '60, as the "valet," is stiff and apparently ill-at-ease. But his role of omniscient apathy makes the distinguishing line between stiffness and stoicism fairly hazy. His eyelids are ossified, as per stage instructions...
...that of a 1928 London taxi (presumably the only one in the U. S. today). This in itself, was not a distraction, but was quite enjoyable. It did, however, create new problems--and here is where the gods came in. In its attempt to carry Eliza Doolittle across the stage, the taxi stalled and left the actors and the audience in a prolonged embarrassment that was relieved only by the emergence of two stage hands who pushed the Austin on its weary way. The actors, and especially the taxi driver, George Bishop, heroically covered up this unavoidable accident...
...caused some distress. Many of those working on the show were involved during the day with school work and jobs, so the few hours left in the evening were hurried and hectic. One can imagine the embarrassment caused by the minister appearing quietly in the auditorium while the irritated stage crew wrestled with the cheapest equipment available. But the staff of Christ Church seemed to take it all in stride, despite the gouges that the lighting control board left scraping up the stairs after rolling through the streets of Harvard Square. One rector became so interested that he found himself...
...technician from Yale, taking a summer course in music, lived up to his fame for facile improvisation. Every time that something went wrong, the cry of "Mc Goo, fix it" went up. And he did. He manufactured a stage plug out of a piece of wood and scraps of copper wire, and he managed to rewire half the Harvard Union in an afternoon...