Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Nutcracker has achieved its most phenomenal popularity. The first full-length version in the U.S. was staged by the San Francisco Ballet in 1944. This year there are at least 150 professional and amateur productions. Kids everywhere vie for a role in the ballet. When they get one, they can pose problems. One San Francisco production features a box of bonbons, played by very small children. Every year some tot goes on a crying jag. Last Christmas one child conquered her stage fright by downing a quick pizza and a hot pastrami. She could barely waddle...
...much he can do about the parents. One mother actually strode onstage during a key rehearsal and grabbed her child away because the family was having a dinner party. "It's a chore," Stevenson confesses. "But the merit is getting the children into the theater both on the stage and in the audience." At a performance in San Antonio, he says, "you could hear the children in the audience screaming with joy when Fritz scares Clara with the rat. There is no other ballet like that...
...Gelbart's book is a naughty treasure laced with sassy one-liners and the ambience of bawdry that he brought to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. As for the formidably gifted George C. Scott, he scales a summit of comic artistry in a stage career that seems to consist only of acting peaks...
...virtual collapse of the OPEC price structure." Others more cautiously warned that OPEC could eventually get its act together again by agreeing on the Saudi price, the price of the majority eleven countries, or some level in between. In the opinion of New York Oil Economist Walter Levy, the stage was set for "a test of strength" between Saudi Arabia and its erstwhile OPEC allies...
...goods and services, discounted for inflation, should go up 4.8% for the year; the rate will pick up to 5.6% in the fourth quarter. That would extend the expansion through eleven straight quarters, but the growth rate would not be as rapid as it has been at the same stage of recovery from past recessions. The anticipated slowdown in spending by business during the year's first half will be a big drag. The latest Government survey indicates that corporate expenditures for new plant and equipment, discounted for inflation, will show hardly any increase over the second half...