Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Emerson is easily the star of the show. His understated style meshes well with the overstated humor of much of the material. He also seems to have been given most of the best lines and is not on stage during the slowest routines. But it is not clear whether Emerson's obvious talents were well displayed in the sketches or whether the twinkle in his eye and his raised eyebrows allowed the sketches to be displayed well...
...thought sweeping generalizations about the students of the seventies were the exclusive property of Time magazine. I write to defend not only my classmates but also the other students of this decade from Hays' slanderous statement that "this Class Day may mark the beginning of the admitted complacency stage of undergraduate life here at Harvard...
...like errant students assigned to the back of the room to repeat the same musical sentence at least 25 times. That was just about the case (see below). High on a ramp, the strings were lined up facing Assistant Conductor David Gilbert in the right rear corner of the stage. He was only one of four conductors at work. At times, James Chambers led the brass and some percussion, Larry Newland the clarinets, flutes and a vibraphone. When all hell broke loose-during an evocation of the Apocalypse-Supreme Maestro Pierre Boulez could be seen beating with the polyrhythmic fury...
Chekhov is the poet laureate of the commonplace. He once wrote that "on the stage everything should be as complex and as simple as in life. People are having dinner, and while they're having it, their future happiness may be decided or their lives may be shattered." In presenting vivid, selective glimpses of ordinary life, Chekhov simultaneously plumbs the nature of existence with its brevity, hope, joy and sorrow. He is an impressionist rather than a photographer. In his plays we know that virtually nothing has happened, but we feel that much has been said...
Nostalgia is Broadway's top growth industry. And how could a stroll down the fond memory lane of great musicals be complete without a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I? The first and only true King, Yul Brynner, still rules the stage in the way that a mountain peak dominates its surroundings, and he has proved as immutable in appearance. Audiences have been humming the enduring, enchanting score ever since the opening night of 26 years ago. This production dwarfs recent musicals in its opulence. The dances, originally choreographed by Jerome Robbins, are drolly...