Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should stress that to my mind, there is nothing wrong, at least in this preliminary stage, in liking another candidate more; denying the legitimacy of a candidate's campaign is another matter. I have worked on this campaign for a while now, and in this time I have heard some singularly moronic reasons why we should not support Gary Hart for president. Traditionally Democratic friends have told me that he can't win because Paul Kirk won't give him the nomination, even if he wins it. What a wonderful democracy we live in! A writer at another Harvard publication...
...three principal roles are again played by the actors who originated them in London, and therein lies the show's chief weakness. As the Phantom -- musically, a tenor good guy rather than a baritone baddie -- Michael Crawford gives the most compelling performance currently to be found on any Broadway stage. The character is an extortionist, kidnaper, incendiary and murderer. Yet as Lloyd Webber conceived him and Crawford plays him, he is also a romantic capable of true selflessness and is all too easily forgiven. As his rival, Steve Barton is blandly tuneful and smugly self-assured, which...
Midway through Chekhov's last play, written as he was dying, a plangent twang is heard by the members and hangers-on of a once grand family on the verge of eviction from its estate. Everybody perceives the sound, which Chekhov likens in the stage directions to a snapping string, but each has his own sense of what it meant. To one, it suggests the call of a heron; to another, an owl; and to a third, a cable breaking in a distant mine shaft. In most productions the moment is a throwaway. In a few it hints...
...whom Lacroix is luring back. Picart speaks proudly of Lacroix's popularity with show-business people, who usually do not frequent the couture. "People like Faye Dunaway and Bette Midler are in a profession of appearances," he says. "They are glad to find street clothes reminiscent of their stage costumes, and they are glad to find that we're not uptight...
There are several memorable scenes in the documentary that give us a strong feeling for the man, as when he performs in an empty theatre for a janitor sweeping the stage, or when a woman who knew him talks about his unquenchable thirst for Bugs Bunny cartoons...