Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theater, Fosse's fluid scene shifting seemed cinematic. On film, the process is reversed. Dance numbers are given coy subtitles, crowd scenes seem achingly stagy. Whenever he cannot provide a valid transition, Fosse makes the frame a mammoth still picture of his star -strictly for those interested in the north, south, east and west faces of Mt. MacLaine. Regardless of how attractive the faces are, that is not film making, it is map making...
...stage is floor level, jutting on three sides into the audience and consisting of szthe skeleton outline of a large ancient building, the Priory Hall. Inside is a table set for dinner. This arrangement provides half the distance of the conventional stage and half the closeness of modern experimental theater, which is appropriate for a play that is largely static and meant to be intellectually rather than viscerally involving...
...Mangueira-last year's champion, named after a stop on a suburban rail line-bring 7,000 participants into their act. While the poor flood into the limelight, the rich and the middle class either leave town or amuse themselves at exclusive balls. Individual tickets for the Municipal Theater Ball, the poshest of them all, run to $50, a box for eight to $3,750. The revelers arrive in psychedelic splendor, shed most of their clothes during the night, and emerge in the early morning, after hours of dancing, in bikinis, swimming trunks and sarongs...
When bigger bombs are dropped, Broadway will drop them. Dear World is almost in the megaton class (it cost $750,000), and the stage at the Mark Hellinger Theater is a smoldering rubble of tedium...