Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-ring circus that moves at the speed of light. The set sprawls the width of the theater, using the balconies over the theater entrance and a walkway that cuts through the 30 or 40 seats in the pit. Actors appear from every door in the theater, sometimes exiting stage right to appear moments later in the balcony with a totally different costume. Halfway through the hour and 45 minute show the audience is in a whirl trying to keep up with all the quick changes and leaping about, but they get no intermission to allow time to sort...
Many of the actors carry multiple roles, but the best of the supporting quick change artists is undoubtedly Paris Barclay as the Baron of Thunder Ten Troncke, the Grand Inquisitor, the Slave Driver and a Sheik. Even in these bit roles, Barclay's stage presence steals every scene. His subtle gestures and expressions turn his characters in minor tours de force...
...minds of his contemporaries. It all began, though, in 1962 in the Greenwich village folk clubs, which then featured singers like Peter Yarrow, Dave Van Ronk, and Bob Dylan. It was a time when "anyone with a pocketful of tunes, a guitar, and the guts to get up on stage was singing folk music." Ochs started out with songs like "One More Parade and "The Power and the Glory...
Someone tell Princeton the Crimson is coming. The Harvard netmen destroyed Yale, 8-1, at home Saturday to set the stage for a showdown for the Eastern League title against the favored Tigers down in New Jersey...
...stage for a dramatic finale, where the two once-beaten teams battled it out in a one-game match...