Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flood boxed at Syracuse University and, after graduation in 1924, joined a touring theatrical company. He performed in more than 50 productions, and grew his trademark mustache for the role of a plantation owner. Age and the wear and tear of his long-running performance on the Capitol Hill stage have lately begun to slow the headliner, who used to rock House debates with melodramatic oratory...
...really had to push just to get the show on stage so that when we were told about the taping we were somewhat surprised. We were almost skeptical that it would happen," Rudie said yesterday...
Harvard presidents can be roughly divided into two categories: those who routinely go about their business, fund-raising and administering the university on a day-to-day basis, and those whose spark of genius makes them major educational forces on a national and international stage. Conant was clearly of the latter kind. The impact of his contributions towards higher and secondary education are unmatched by any present-day educational leader...
OUTRAGED that the saga of Pippin's life did not end in an egoistic suicide, the players curse Pippin and Catherine and Theo, who stand in the middle of the stage, hand in hand. They remove all the props, the makeup, the costumes, the lights, and leave the trio standing squarely in the center of a bare Shubert stage. Without revealing the finale, as Pippin himself says, "What a way to end a musical comedy...
...sensuous rock 'n roll dance featuring a scorching electric guitar lead, a funky organ and a pulsating and quickening beat. The dance typifies the effective manner in which Fosse handles the elements of sex and slang in his production. With gaining speed, the dancers throw one another around the stage, while throwing Pippin into breasts and behinds. In one part of the dance, the dancers lower Pippin on and off a series of female dancers who somersault on the stage floor to lie flat beneath him. Right in synch with the dancing, the music accelerates, then climaxes, leaving Pippin alone...