Word: tableau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approach in the production, though, works extraordinarily well--it consists of an easel with a series of mathematical equations whimsically demonstrating the point of "See How the Fates Their Gifts Allot," perhaps the show's wittiest number. This was not the only bit of business that came off--the tableau effects during "The criminal cried" were excellent, and the ruffling and unruffling of large gold foil fans during "A More Humane Mikado" nearly stopped the show. And Katisha's new image as an angular, sympathetic giantess instead of a short, fat grouch worked well as one of the few departures...
...glider took him into battle. Nor does Ryan fail to mention the name of the beer (Worthington)-just as he identifies the typewriter (Olivetti) being tapped by a then U.P. correspondent named Walter Cronkite. Random, trivial, even compulsive, Ryan's facts eventually justify themselves as a fragmented tableau of that most fragmented experience: war. Here are just a few of the details of just one air drop, seen like a close-up of a Flemish tapestry: A paratrooper lands on a partridge and carries the dead bird with him: half talisman, half future meal. A British colonel calls...
Davis and costume designer Jan Stauffer team up, however, for this production's most striking effect, the tableau of Dracula embracing the Victorian heroine, while the folds of his black robes overlap the folds of her white ones, with which the first act ends. It makes the heroine's appearance in a long black robe for the second act as effective as it is inevitable. Stuart Sundlun's set and Bill Scherlis's lighting, by way of contrast, lack the menacing shadows demanded by the play, whose everyday aspects are quite apparent enough...
...decor is the most attractive thing. While waiting for your order, wander around and look at the bizarre stained glass windows of Bobby Orr, Germaine Greer and other public heros. The tableau "How Spaghetti Grows" on the hall leading to the bathroom is worth its own trip to the john...
...final tableau -- The Devil hanging triumphantly from the Soldier's neck while the Narrator grins and Schmidt brings the drum-roll to a climax -- caps everything convincingly...