Word: tainter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent evening in the splendidly gilded 19th century Mabel Tainter Opera House in Menomenie, Wis., the sound system was awry and the stage a bit small, but the cast of eight gave a spirited performance all the same-of the mythic Andersson family emigrating from Sweden, its terrors of the new country, its settling, its dances, a child's death, the plague of locusts that wiped out the farm and drove the family into rural show business. Terry Hinz is perfect as the boyish paterfamilias, but one remembers especially the dazed, inward quality of Mary Wright as Mrs. Andersson...