Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play is a subltly modulated blend of humor (verging on slapstick) with tragedy (verging on bathos). The Abbey's great achievement in the past has been its ability to stage O'Casey without falling into either abyss. While the production now at the Schubert does not fall from the tightrope acting the play demands, neither does it evoke gasps...
...organizers of the event had to order TV cameras, which were filming the antics, from the stage when they completely blocked the crowd's view of actor Dan Ackroyd cutting a chair in half with a chain...
Rumor had it that the Arena was no place to stage hockey games, but the rumor was wrong, because the Arena is no place to have anything with the exception of reunion parties for the Addams (as in Mortisha and Lerch) family...
...cause the network to reverse its decision and put the man on as a regularly scheduled Mad Prophet of the airways; that emboldened by this success, the executives would grant a weekly slice of prime time to a revolutionary group something like the Symbionese Liberation Army so they can stage their heists before a slack-jawed mass audience; that meantime the Mad Prophet would be taken over by a conglomerateur and be come an apologist for multinational capitalism; that this development would cause another ratings crisis and that his network employers, unable to fire him because they too are owned...
Life is simpler for Karajan now. He is a proud and private family man. Leaving the stage after every tumultuous Carnegie ovation, he looked up to the box where his third wife Eliette and their daughters Isabel, 16, and Arabel, 12, stood in rapt admiration...