Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson (8-7 overall, 1-3 Ivy) took an early lead in the opener which it won easily, 4-0, but had to stage a dramatic six-run rally in its last at-bat to take the nightcap...
Bright and unblinking, the marquee rose above the horizon of the subway staircase: TOMORROW'S STARS TODAY -- RALPH COOPER PRESENTS AMATEUR NIGHT AT THE APOLLO. Tomorrow's stars! He liked the sound of it. He pushed the stage- door buzzer and stepped into another world...
...know?" At other moments he seems to share the crowd's delight at the ineptitude of the worst performers. "So that's how they sing in Georgia," he sniffs, after a young man who'd driven all the way from Atlanta falls to pieces at center stage...
Well, that's exactly what Picinic is: a prickly, tepid and altogether irritating play about growing up in the Midwest. And the actors strut across the stage as if they've had too much...
Luckily, Robinson Everett brings enough that is fresh to Woody's old role that we don't even miss him in this Dunster House production. Moreover, the rest of the cast, which seemed to fade into the background in the film, has a chance in the stage version to relax and make the most of their characters, who prove surprisingly funny unto themselves...