Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HENRY, SWEET HENRY lured theatergoers into picking up $400,000 worth of tickets in advance of its opening. These venture-capitalists have a dismally disenchanting evening in store for them. The musical concerns itself with a pair of schoolgirls who spend off-hours spying on a concert-stage idol (Don Ameche). When he is not pounding the keyboard, he dallies carnally with suburban and urban matrons. The music is tuneless, the lyrics witless, and the dances could pass for mass hopscotch. What less...
...BIRTHDAY PARTY is nine years old and Harold Pinter's first full-length play. Brought to Broadway for the first time, it is as highly individualistic, if not as technically poised, as his later works. The playwright cuts through the conventions of accepted stage behavior and the rules of the well-made play to expose the cruel and the comic, the frighteningly familiar and the terrifyingly unknown in each man's existence...
STEPHEN D. replays the symphony of sound composed by James Joyce in his two autobiographical novels. While not sufficiently theatrical-the images called up by Joyce's words are more vivid than the vignettes seen on the stage-the production provides a pleasant, literate evening on the banks of the Liffey...
...exchanged news. A girl, just back from Athens, cried as she recounted what happened at the ancient theater below the Acropolis. A young actress, Greece's leading interpreter of classical tragedy, was bowing to the audience, when a government minister stepped up to the stage to congratulate her. She ignored him and kept bowing to the wildly cheering crowd, until he turned around and left...
...University takes the position that free movement of individuals is an essential and inseparable aspect of the free movement of ideas. To stage entirely peaceful and non-disruptive protests against individual comings and goings, either against individuals as such or as symbols of disapproved activities or organizations, is an aspect of the freedom of students and citizens; to obstruct such individuals and interfere with their movement or their discussions, is an unjustified interference with their freedom, with that of the University, and that of students and faculty who wish to converse with them or to hear them. Most students, including...