Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glassy, green, undulating * plates that suggest the forest in Siegfried, but too often the choices seem arbitrary. In addition, Kirchner's stage maneuvers are inept. Time and again the cast is left singing directly to the audience -- just like the bad old days when operas were turned into stiff pageants. Some awkward direction will be corrected next year. Bayreuth stages no new productions of Wagner's other operas during the second year of any Ring cycle, wisely using time and money to make improvements, which can be extensive...
Talk about Huck! This kid is soon up the creek without raft or paddle. The Mafia wants to prevent him from talking about the stiff, and an ambitious, media-mad federal prosecutor (Tommy Lee Jones at his smarmy best) is equally determined to get his testimony. Mark's only ally is a nice lady lawyer (Susan Sarandon), shaky-brave and, since she's lost her own children in an ugly divorce, ready to do a little surrogate mothering...
This time around, all the performers are demanding stiff fees. Wary of the huge financial commitment that was being asked for, Decca hesitated to commit itself, and the Warner Music Group jumped in. The new deal is estimated at nearly $1 million for each artist. That's the way to sing for your supper...
...them is what they do with their music and the intensity ands energy that they generate at their live shows, then I'd shell out the Ticketmaster-inflated $24 for a ticket and go. And what did I get? Many a moment of music-induced goose-bumps and a stiff neck from heavy grooving (note that Anastasio's head is blurred in the photo--he was grooving...
...needed a stiff drink after the Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre's presentation of Harold Pinter's play, "The Dumb Waiter." With remarkable restraint, Aaron Zelman and Mark Fish (the two characters Gus and Ben, respectively) pulled off what easily could have been a flat, boring piece of comedy. Under the direction of Chris Scully, they brought subtlety and nuance to the characters, fleshing out the obscure, ambiguous script to produce suspense and intensity...