Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MUSICAL REVUES are the stage craze of the hour, at Harvard and in professional theaters. Last fall two student-written revues in the Houses played to big audiences; Ain't Misbehavin', a set of Fats Waller numbers, won the Tony for Best Musical of 1978 and just opened in Boston; and last week this hardy genre of theater made it to the Loeb Mainstage in the form of Ellington at Eight, a collection of Duke Ellington classics. It shivered a bit in the Loeb's vasty spaces, but perked up its head and boldly smiled on. Despite occasional lapses...
...behind a scrim, worked its way through about 20 Ellington numbers in the course of two hours. They seemed to have all they needed to conjure up a '40s nightclub--dim lights, thick smoke, and swinging music. But they missed the intimacy of a nightclub-sized area; the Loeb stage is pretty forbidding, especially when it's set up as a proscenium instead of the modified theater-in-the-round Loeb directors often choose. Michael Der Manuelian, Ellington's director, didn't even try to protect his performers against the mainstage's tendency to dwarf actors. They sometimes looked...
Ultimately, the best hope for beating inflation is not to browbeat industry and unions but to deal with the inflationary plague that is spread by the Government. Certainly wage and price restraint is important, and Stage II is better than outright controls. But excessive Government spending, towering deficits and ever multiplying regulations are also fundamental causes of the price spiral. Says Pfizer's Pratt: "We have told the President, as most companies have, that we will abide by the guidelines. But what the Government itself is doing is a big part of the problem." In short, the nation would...
...final burst of nervous optimism. Blocking problems, which seem minor at first, keep recurring. Too often what passes for choreography becomes simply two pairs facing each other as the featured character prances in between. Every now and then, all five actresses line up at the edge of the stage, choir-style, and start singing. They're singing quite nicely, to be sure, but the show loses its dramatic force when the players only produce the theatrical equivalent of declaiming from a podium...
Sophomore duo Dan Menichella and Campari Knoepffler then offset the solid performance of Tiger silver medalist Bill Specht in the 200 butterfly by churning to eighth and ninth, respectively, setting the stage for the final two events...