Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midnight meeting in the ballroom at which Cheit tried to defend use of the police and the table-manning rules, but drew hoots and jeers. His efforts were further squelched by cries of "Savio, Savio" as the former Free Speech leader, free on bail, arrived to take the stage, deliver a rambling plea for a student strike. Savio's wife Suzanne also showed up to urge a strike. On a quick show of hands, with no chance for a negative vote, the strike was approved. A closely divided student-government council later voted 9 to 8 to endorse...
Still, Boeing has suggested that the 747 is large enough for "a nightclub complete with stage and live entertainment" and "even a fireplace-but no outside chimney." So far, none of its customers have picked up these ideas...
Bach comes first and sets the stage; the singers keep the same costumes for the Beatle cantatas, which only heightens the feeling that parts of the program's halves are completely interchangeable. The Peasant Cantata's chorus -- which actually does not sing at all -- is well handled as a pantomiming backdrop to the two singers. The drinking scenes are especially colorful...
...brightness of the whole production. Three dandies start out a scene talking like different human beings, and end it sounding like male counter-parts of the Three Little Maids. Too often an actor enters and sounds as if he has been tuning up to the players on stage. When some one does bring on a new tone, it blows the ether out of Etherege, and makes even the topical references and most elusive wit funny. Mr. Senelick (they've got no first names in the Genuine Antique program) breezes as Sir Foplin Flutter, looking like the Cowardly Lion, bantering...
...minor roles, Mr. Kaplan and Misses Meglathery and Levin present well-carved cameos.. And Rima Wolff's dances help pump up this souffle that didn't quite rise, but which gives a good taste of the early Restoration stage...