Word: tangoing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...about to goof it. Sandy is a constant hair pusher: in the first few minutes of Up the Down Stair case, she pushed three times. She is also an oral actress: a lip biter, tongue twitcher, mouth closer and chin wrinkler. Her vocal rhythm is a hesitation tango; her midsentence gasps leave audiences gasping...
THEATER COMPANY OF BOSTON will be at the University of Rhode Island for the Kingston Summer Theater Festival until Aug. 27 with Tango, by Polish Playwright Slawomir Mrozek, Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, two one-acters by Murray Schisgal, The Typists and The Tiger, and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...thing about this musical distillation of it, delivering five of the songs written by Manos Hadjidakis with lyrics by Joe Darion. Amidst the jingly rhythms of the Greek taverna, Melina's breathy bedroom voice stirs a sensuous mood in Piraeus, My Love, is slyly wistful in the Medea Tango as she sings her own version of the myth, and as joyous as ever in her theme song, Never on Sunday...
STRAVINSKY: L'HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT and PROKOFIEV: QUINTET, OPUS 39 (Melodiya-Angel). Written at the end of World War I, Histoire is a clever little musical outrage featuring a demented tango, ragtime gone wrong, a satanic mockery of a Bach chorale, and countless other musical japes in the story of a soldier who sells his soul to the Devil, wins it back and finally loses it again. The Prokofiev is also dramatic, originally composed for a ballet about a circus. The Moscow Chamber Ensemble, led by Gennedy Rozhdestvensky, has just the right touch for both: cool, brusque, almost offhandish...
...most recent works is the one that goes bing, bong, boing, Swurpledeewurpledeezeech! That little masterpiece is played as the TV announcer says "CBS presents this program in color," while CBS's trademarked "eye" goes swurpling across the screen. And who can for get Siday's burpy little tango, beedle-deedle-beep-bop, doo-beedle-beep-bop, which is scored to the rhythmic bubbling percolator in the Maxwell House coffee commercial...