Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There had been some question about where the skirmish should take place. At first the Poonies wanted to stage it in front of the Lampoon castle on Mt. Auburn St., but later they conceded that it might be safer in Soldiers Field...
...persuade ourselves that better educated people would produce improved results at each stage of the system, we will have to find the funds to educate them or attract people who have gotten the education on their...
Under a narrow ceiling and then suddenly into the auditorium. But Midas has been there first. The boxes, the ceiling, the proscenium arch, the curtain, and the fifth violinist's teeth are gold. So is a sculpture above the stage that looks like a cubist's idea of a squatting giraffe. In the old Met, the gold was dark, worked and decorated; here it is plain and so bright it hurts the eyes. Little diamond mustaches are affixed to the boxes. And there are more star-shaped chandeliers. Clearly, someone got up one morning out of his Procrustean bed with...
Once the house has darkened, the Met improves infinitely.. I saw the new production of La Gioconda, in which designer Beni Montresor put San Marco Square on the stage with no trouble at all. The huge, deep stage also did justice to three other magnificent sets. What is more, the sets were built backstage and can be stored there. Several productions can be assembled in advance, and one scene can be slid forward onto the stage as another is hauled off to the side. (I assume that the interminable intermission waits at La Gioconda were due to the fact...
With so perfect a stage, it is pointless to lament that the rest of the Met is slightly tacky. It would probably take the management twenty years to amass the funds and courage to make significant changes. The new generation that arises by that time will forgive the new Met as being quaint, just as we forgave the old Met for its idiosyncrasies...