Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jive joint during the Dog Days. The love-song "Neon Nights" seems to reflect the band's one-up-in-the-world status and if the romance of "two crazy people" on "a neon night" seems too-slick and too sacharin you can just see it as a stage, a step, that most groups take away from their beginnings...
...Orten's satirical farce What The Butler Saw gives a zany view of the fine line between the sane and the insane. The play is a wild conglomeration of mistaken identities, costume changes (performed on stage), the disappearance of characters who never existed, and other madcap antics, all of which are somehow untangled in the final scene. Highlight performances are given by Leo-Pierre Roy and David Reiffel, who ham it up beautifully as incompetent representatives of the psychiatric profession...
...play ideologically objectionable. Based on the Greek tragedy Antigone, the story is set in a modern Latin American distatorship where Antigona Perez has defied the State and now waits execution. The rape, tortune and brutality that is a way of life in such repressive regimes is minimal on stage. In fact, the play asks one to raise one's consciousness only so far as to accept that every action is a political action, that nothing can be done without political ramifications. Some of the cast turns in remarkable performances which overcome mishandled staging and a poorly translated script. What further...
...about a cardinal trying to track down the inheritance of his girlfriend in 17th century France but, as usual at the Hasty Pudding, it's the good time you have, not the money you lost that counts. And with the excellently choreographed, excellently executed dance numbers, and terrific stage design (not to mention the cork popping that goes on at most performances), good times you're certain to have. If you're still left a little uneasy, wondering if you haven't seen those unshapely calves and heard those borrowed gags in a bad dream somewhere before, just remember again...
...poorly received commercials condoning racism were retrieved with a switch-around antagonism: a black dude named Jim Brown comes out and becons the T.V. audience to give these poor untalented white folks a job. Pointing to a group of uncoordinated, spastic white people in the corner of the stage, Jim Brown moans: "They can't do nothin', there. They can't boogie, they can't play hoops, shake their bootie..they can't do nothing." Even the silly "Maltese Toilet", a satire on the falcon of that lineage, was retrieved by a wonderful impersonation of Bogart by a pelvis swingin...