Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maria Callas died last week at 53 of a heart attack in Paris. She had been living privately and comfortably in retirement. Not since 1965 had she appeared on an opera stage, nor had she given a recital since 1974. But 16th arrondissement neighbors often heard her in her apartment, singing arias to herself...
Naturally, Allen was feeling insecure. "She was a Broadway star, and who was I? A cabaret comedian who had never even been on a stage before." She worried that she was too tall. He worried that he was too short. They took off their shoes and measured, back to back. She, at 5 ft. 7 in., was three-quarters of an inch taller. Close enough...
What brought this fountain of rarefied nonsense to Mr. Goodbar? Keaton's name still brings an "Oh. yeah, Woody Allen's girl" reaction from filmgoers, and she and Allen have known for some time that she must establish herself separately. Her first venture, during a dry period between the stage and film versions of Play It Again, Sam, was a series of three memorably tacky TV commercials, in which she played a housewife who jogged around her kitchen in a track suit, holding up a can of Hour After Hour deodorant and yelling, "This stuff is great...
...Marquis de Sade was convinced that the French Revolution was a mistake. Or at least that seems to be the explanation behind that notorious writer's decision to stage a mock murder of one of the revolution's leaders in "The persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade." According to director Kerry Konrad '78, this play within a play, in which neither the passion of the revolution, of the marquis or of the inmates seems to know any bounds, is particularly suited...
...nothing but a series of misadventures with the four women in his life. The Mather House production of this modern everyman that opens November 3 will emphasize the desperate need for escape that results when all four women are played by the same actress. On a stark stage there seems nowhere in the world to turn...