Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most left-over of the left-overs is Mel Brooks' The Producers, a professionally written, professionally staged, but miserably filmed comedy starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. In spirit, the picture is happily reminiscent of the Marx Bros., and it has ten minutes of genius-within-genius under the title Springtime for Hitler, a musical about the Third Reich. Here, working on stage, Brooks is at his best as a director, and achieves the very tricks of timing which elude him on film. His lyrics for the show's title song ("Springtime for Hitler and Germany/Winter for Poland and France/We...
...bearded man with a red scarf stands totally still at the front of the stage. He says nothing. He scarcely breathes. The audience waits. And waits. Gradually, a few titters break out. Sitting at the back of the house, an actress-who dishonestly announces that she is not an actress -chides the titterers for their embarrassment. Occasionally she addresses a question to the man on stage: "Are you asking? Are you telling? Do you need...
...their feet thumping in military double time. They compulsively mime cleaning the backs of orchestra seats. There is a cross fire of phrases as the actors recite everything printed on a dollar bill. The caustic commentary on money and the military builds to an insane close-order drill on stage. In the cacophonous din, a thundering common shout of "YES, SIR!" seems to blast out the house lights...
Most of the Living Theater's pieces are exercises in the manipulation of crowd emotions. Whatever does not actively irritate is designed to produce a kind of mesmeric communal hysteria. One piece finds Julian Beck sitting cross-legged in the middle of the stage. In a voice of clerical monotony, he says "Stop the wars, now." Cast members in the aisles shout back in unison, "Stop the wars, now!" He repeats the phrase half a dozen times as the audience response grows in force. Then he switches to "Freedom-now," and on through a litany of total dissent...
Last week, after seemingly endless legal manuevers, the case finally reached a significant new stage. In a 3 23 -page report, former U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, the "special master" appointed by a New York district court to assess the amount of the damages, accepted most of TWA's claims that Hughes' procrastination in securing jets for the airline had severely crippled its ability to compete in the early 1960s. Brownell set the sum that Hughes should pay TWA at $137.6 million. His report will now go to Federal Judge Charles Metzner, who is expected to in corporate...