Word: stagehands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the small, dark-haired woman walked into Milan's La Piccola Scala, a stagehand took one look at her flushed, distracted face and called for the doctor. Her maid, hovering worriedly in the background, suggested a psychiatrist. Her husband was blunt: "Now I know what it's like to live with a madwoman." But three hours later, Soprano Graziella Sciutti, 29, was out before the curtain receiving one of the biggest ovations of her career. The part she had played to perfection: the title role in a rarely performed opera by Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816), Nina, ossia...
Hamlet came tooling onstage on a red motor scooter and sat eying three maniacal traffic signs: "To Be," "Not to Be," and "No Entry." He was tossing the skull of Yorick in the air, pondering how to flip his directional signals, when a stagehand reversed the "To Be" sign, revealing the words "To Egypt." Sure enough, Cleopatra appeared and started to shimmy...