Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...markets, is extremely costly. Campaigns for Governor and Senator routinely cost $10 million or more per candidate. Neither presidential contender can afford to spend that much in a single state, even the nation's biggest. Dukakis and Bush are both counting on "free media." That is, they hope to stage enough colorful events to land regularly on the nightly TV news and thus get their message across to a state that is a must-win -- and a toss-up -- for both...
...sold out, you know. The music was dead before we even went on the theater tour of Britain." Goldman obediently parrots this view, arguing that the Beatles "might have rocked with the tough working-class belligerence of the Who, becoming a group whose musical gestures, seconded by corresponding stage gestures, would have created a rock theater that could have enabled John Lennon to enact the psychodrama seething inside his soul." The biographer adds, " 'Selling Out' is the missing chapter in the history of the Beatles. It's the chapter that nobody has ever wanted to write...
...great post-World War II story of the American stage is the rise of resident companies in scores of cities. Instead of offering just touring entertainments on their way to or from Broadway, they present new works and innovative reconsiderations of the classics. The foremost symbol of this regional movement is the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. One of the older companies -- it marks its 25th anniversary this year -- it is also among the biggest, with 1,441 seats, more than in 25 of the 37 playhouses on Broadway...
Still to come this season are two formidable challenges for the Guthrie and its audience alike. One is Rumanian Director Lucian Pintilie's harrowing vision of Ibsen's The Wild Duck, stressing its social-class conflicts, first seen at Arena Stage in 1986. The other is the U.S. premiere of Pravda, a 1985 London hit about the takeover and corruption of serious news media by a tycoon whom critics likened to Rupert Murdoch. Wright is looking forward to them confidently. "Thanks to the long and rarefied history of the repertory at this theater," he says, "the audience is much better...
That is a simple but accurate description of a situation approaching the crisis stage throughout the U.S. The affluent, fast-paced, throwaway American culture is producing trash on a stupendous scale. Between 1960 and 1986, the amount of American garbage grew 80%, from 87.5 million tons to 157.7 million tons annually. It is expected to increase 22% by the year 2000, when the malodorous mound will weigh 192.7 million tons...