Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Toward the end of Saturday's game, some Harvard fans advised Falcon Coach Jerry York that since his players obviously were not going to stage, a miraculous comeback, he should "play, the chicken...
Oddly for a work so plot-heavy and meticulously told, Les Miserables began life as a score rather than a libretto, appeared as a record album before it reached the stage, and languished for five years between the French and British productions. The original creators, Composer Claude-Michel Schonberg and Lyricist Alain Boublil, owed little to French musical-theater tradition -- there isn't much of one -- and a lot to rock operas like Jesus Christ Superstar. In their 1980 version at the 4,000-seat Palais des Sports in Paris, the show ran little more than half its present length...
...past few months as many as 7,000 men have been trained and sent in small groups -- about 20 rebels each -- from Honduras into Nicaragua. This is a new stage in the conflict: instead of camping out in big, vulnerable bases on the border, they are using small bands to harass the Sandinistas with hit-and-run attacks...
...surface gravity will be so low the outer layers will boil off into space, leaving behind only the naked core, a lump of matter about as big as the earth, but with 60% of the sun's original mass, glowing blue-hot at perhaps 120,000 degrees C. That stage will mark the end of the sun's active life; its nuclear fires will never again turn on. Slowly it will cool until it is first a white dwarf, still glowing, then a cold black dwarf, a cinder. In the blackness of space, as in Fire and Ice, the lifeless...
...that really provides the bang for the buck. Zeffirelli and Costume Designer Dada Saligeri offer a regal gold and mother-of-pearl panoply: high atop a throne in the far reaches of the cavernous stage perches the black-clad, thousand-year-old Emperor (Swiss Tenor Hugues Cuenod, making his company debut at 84). For the first time the Met stage, which has swallowed whole such formidable productions as Nathaniel Merrill's 1966 Die Frau ohne Schatten, looks cramped. As is its custom, the Met declines to reveal the spectacle's cost, but best guesses run to about $1.5 million...