Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past, some kind of free entertainment was presented on a specially built stage every evening of the Festival. The celebrated dancers Andre Eglevsky and Mia Slavenska, with the Robert Joffrey Theatre Ballet, gave four performances. The Joffrey Ballet, consisting of eight young dancers, is a good company but not a fine one. All eight dance well by themselves, but they have not yet achieved the precision of ensemble that marks the best troupes. Eglevsky and Slavenska are both first-rank artists; but, in both of their duos, drawn from Tschaikovsky, they proved disappointing: Eglevsky had nothing to do except...
...Festival's final evening featured a concert of two works "written for the out-of-doors," played by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Richard Burgin. On the Festival stage 13 wind-players performed Mozart's Serenade in B-flat (K. 361). The performance went fairly well, but showed several signs of insufficient rehearsal (in the first minuet, the bassoonist even played his entire solo one bar ahead of everyone else...
With their season running from June 24 to August 30, the Group 20 Players present a variagated series of plays, each running two weeks. Sheridan's The School for Scandal, the current production runs until July 5. From July 8 to July 19, the Players will stage Arthur's Miller's Death of a Salesman. For the remainder of the summer, The Merchant of Venice, Pygmalion, and Jean Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates will appear...
...Stage Struck. Local girl making good on Broadway - the hard way; with Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda (TIME, April...
...performed last week, it opened with a stark roll of drums followed by a saxophone drag that sent a line of twelve kids snaking around the stage and into a shoulder-shrugging, foot-dragging pantomime of exaggerated futility known as "The Slop." Deadpanned, stony-eyed, the dancers stalked the stage in chilling isolation, occasionally made wary, shoulder-grazing efforts to come together, then drifted off again into the kind of cool depths no adult can plumb. The audience sat solemn-faced, but greeted the final curtain with a roar of applause...