Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fine stole the ball and layed it in with 3:25 left in the contest to extend the Crimson's slender lead to three points at 74-71, and set the stage for the string of charity tosses...
...breakaway basket to capture a four-point lead early in the second half. Once the score reached 70-67 in Harvard's favor with ten minutes remaining in the contest, both teams suffered a five-minute scoring drought until a Bentley field goal broke the ice, setting the stage for Fine's defensive masterpiece...
Although Powell will go on to teach eight four-hour sessions from a Kaplan-prepared primer, tonight he is playing Ed McMahon. He is warming up the audience, setting the stage, we are told, for the main event--a papal blessing from the guru of the educational test-preparation business...
Beyond making themselves understood, however, some of the cast falter, unsure whether to play the operetta utterly deadpan--letting the audience laugh at these ridiculous characters--or to reveal that they, too, know the whole thing is a joke. Catherine Weary's sparkling Josephine holds the stage through sheer vocal perfection alone--she could probably handle Puccini with ease. Donald Hovey's Ralph Rackstraw, too, has a full, clean tenor. Now, admittedly there isn't all that much anyonecan make of the milquetoast roles of the love-struck couple; but both Weary and Hovey shuffle between dead seriousness and deadpan...
...most consistent performances are William Falk's as Josephine's father, Captain Corcoran, and Patty Woo's as Buttercup. Both seem to know instinctively that they have to keep a lot of activity on stage, and their duet, "Things Are Seldom What They Seem," was the best number of the evening. Weary may sing better, but Falk and Woo tiptoe, mug and enliven their business the way the whole cast might have...