Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston's Lunchtime Theatre with a new production each week. At the Lyric Stage, 54 Charles St., Boston. Tickets are $1.50 for one, $5.00 for four. Call 742-3650 for info...
...Welles couldn't have graciously ceded the spotlight to deHory, instead of forcing himself, and his own legerdemain, to center stage. He keeps butting--reciting from Kipling, lumbering through fog in Ireland, gluttoning himself with oysters and steaks. Somehow this went over big in Europe, where F for Fake has already played. Some superstars have only to throw a little self-adulation into their work--their childhood memories, their hors-d'oeuvres, their kitchen sinks--and eager-tongued adulators lap it up. Welles and Barbara Walters...
...Welles's genius springs primarily from his sense of the operatic and the Thespian, and not from any personalized vision, this explains away all the bewilderment about why he has "wasted" himself bringing Shakespeare bombastically to the screen and reciting poetry on the Tonight Show. To stage a production is to stage a production. Citizen Kane and Ambersons may have constituted neither flukes nor the harbinger of a restless, inspired, opus: they may just have proven that stage-wizard Welles, given good material and the tools of his trade, can put on one hell of an incomparable show...
...helped run things on the national stage too. All the honchos for over twenty years trooped up to the fifth floor of City Hall. Everyone knows John F. Kennedy '40 owed his election in part to the kingmaker and Carter clinched the nomination last June on the day Daley endorsed him. Even if the mayor failed to carry Illinois for Carter and got crushed by the Republicans in the gubernatorial election, Daley ran the party in Illinois up to the day he died...
That set the stage for the spring primary and election to determine who will serve out Daley's term. Slowly a whole generation of grown men are finding themselves, realizing for the first time in their lives that they don't have to take orders from anyone. Mayor Daley so dominated local politics that few others received any exposure. Not one in fifty Chicagoans could have identified Wilson Frost or Michael Bilandic before last month...