Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South House production, Jonathan Star has done a commendable job of integrating audience and set, creating a simple "T" -shaped stage surrounded by small square tables for the crowd. This not only evokes a tawdy nightclub, but also serves to pull the audience into the action onstage. Sitting in the crowd, one has almost the sense of being an extra in the show...
...shaped stage handsomely conduces to Gladys Bumps' (played by Debbie Danielpour) smoldering dance number, as she belts out, "I'm a red hot mama but I'm blue on you." Danielpour's pelvic thrusts initiated catcalls from the crowd, and the gutsiness she poured into the song more than compensated for any small flaws in the singing...
...stage also allows dancing room for the goils and their heated-packing henchmen. Frenetic Charlestons were done in all manner of abbreviated costumes. Liz Miller, as one of the chorus, projected energy and delivered lines in a marvelous high-pitched, ingenuous squeak...
Photochemotherapy was first introduced in 1974, when dermatologists hailed it as a major advance in the treatment of psoriasis. It is still in the testing stage, although almost 35,000 people received the treatment last year...
...play itself must take some of the blame. As in many of Shakespeare's tragedies, the performance of the lead actor can make or break the production. In School for Wives, the role of Arnolphe is tremendously difficult. On stage throughout most of the show, Arnolphe must almost always convey comic consternation as Horace continually foils his lovely plans. The success of several scenes depends almost solely on Arnolphe's facial expressions upon hearing Horace's descriptions of the ups and downs of his attepts to woo Agnes. Toope has the energy to play Arnolphe, but little of the control...