Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giddy '20s, the prettiest birds of paradise who pranced across the stage of Ziegfeld's Follies and George White's Scandals were invariably festooned in confections of bangles and ostrich feathers whipped up by the designer known as Erte. He also created the lavish sets and languid costumes, trimmed with serpentine curlicues, that made some Metropolitan Opera productions beggar those of today. From 1915 to 1938, the lithe chiffon-draped mademoiselles that graced the covers of Harper's Bazaar were largely the work...
STRATFORD, Conn.-It has become fashionable in the last few years for stage directors, especially young ones, to pick up a classic that is generally conceded to be a light comedy and so stage it that it comes out a "dark" or "black" comedy. This is precisely what Michael Kahn, aged 29, has done with The Merchant of Venice now in view at the American Shakespeare Festival...
...huge golden lion-rampant hanging in front of a blue cyclorama -- the lion being a traditional symbol of gold, and gold having long been termed "the lion of metals." Underneath we note part of two arched Venetian foot-bridges, both of gold. A short masque takes place on stage, but we are put somewhat ill-at-ease by the dissonant musical score provided by Richard Peaslee (a far cry from the pleasant harmonies Virgil Thomson composed for the Festival's Merchant of exactly ten years...
...eponymous merchant, with a good deal of snarling, and puts plenty of punch into his diatribe against Shylock's "Jewish heart." At the end of the show, when all the plots have been straightened out and all the pairs of lovers hooked up, Kahn keeps Antonio alone on the stage after all the others have exited, and the merchant slowly tears in two the letter in his hand. We are not to have our package tied up with a blue-ribbon...
...more permanent solution, the University has decided to commission the architectural firm of Sert, Jackson and Associates to plan a parking building which will be situated at Everett St. and Massachusetts Avenue. After the first stage of construction is completed, the building should hold 400 cars. When the second stage is completed, it will have a total capacity of about 600 cars...