Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wither with a glance, and inflate his importance with a long swagger-stick. And he is wise enough not to protract the Letter Scene beyond endurance. Fine as Haigh is though he has not found as many nucances in the character as Philip Kerr did on this came stage...
...distant rumble offstage and the deafening shout of the auctioneers announce the arrival of "a front and back bar, English, a real beauty, who'll start me at $25,000?" The whole thing, garnished with plants and beer mugs, is rolled onto the stage on a dolly, where a crew rotates it under the lights. The motion makes it a little hard actually to see the object being offered, but it "puts more color into the wood," says Acey Decy Equipment Co.'s Peter Ritter. The sound system is pitched to discourage any distracting conversation in the audience...
...projected impact points for Skylab's disintegrating parts occur somewhere along a path of 40,000 miles?nearly twice the circumference of the globe. At two hours, the final anticipated flight track still extends over a 13,000mile path. Testing its prediction on a falling Soviet Cosmos booster stage on April 29, NORAD made an estimate two hours before re-entry? and missed the actual impact points in the Pacific by 4,000 miles...
...problems were only beginning. A once elegant vaudeville house, the Savoy had been divided into twin movie theaters by a concrete wall. Caldwell knocked down the wall and made the hall presentable enough for a spring season, but she will need about $5 million to renovate the theater. The stage, only 26 ft. deep, is not large enough for grand opera. Since the stage was originally built 6 ft. below street level, expansion to 65 ft. will require excavating the alley behind...
...celebrated Beatrice and Benedick, constructed of words alone, the positive. There's meaning in Shakespeare's juxtaposition of his parody of the hackneyed romance embodied in Hero and Claudio and the thoroughly unorthodox relationship between Beatrice and Benedick. Sellars, however, is too busy moving his dummies around the stage to waste any time developing Shakespeare's main theme...