Word: theiler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the opening tableau of the Gentlemen of Japan, looking like refugees from the Kabuki dancers, the staging is in every way impressive. Aided by a magnificent set by James Peters, Sarah Sweezy's beautiful costumes, and choreography by Elizabeth Theiler, the visual aspect of the play is quite stunning. The movement is fast but controlled, and the stage business is meticulous in detail and execution. Novick is especially successful in out-doing Gilbert's spoof of English attitudes, notably those toward the Orient which did so much to produce the Far-Eastern mess of the 19th Century. The chorus...
...less widely spaced the audience turned partisan, hissing the villain with all its might. As is proper in a drama of love, war, and deception, there is a chorus strutting about occasionally, singing things like "Prepare to fight with skill and might," and a priestess (attractively played by Elizabeth Theiler) going through a mystic ritual-dance...
Elizabeth Theiler's superb choreography highlights the show. Indeed, every scene is a dance scene, and the dances are all imaginatively conceived if not always admirably executed. The brightest spot in the performance comes late in the third act when a waiter (Philip Burnham) announces "Pepe and Lolita with the Tango," and tall Wes Thum and the petite Elizabeth Theiler run through an hilarious take-off on the "tragic" dance routine...
Choreography for the show is under the direction of Elizabeth Theiler '60, and Debra A. Cole '59 will design the sets. A nine-piece orchestra will play for the performances...
...without the chorus, the dancers alternated "show" and serious numbers. Amy Greenfield's "Jungle Drums" dance was easily the most spectacular feat of the evening. requiring amazing subtleties of rhythm and control. And "Le Petit Mal De La Jeunesse," a portrait of teenagers today, danced by Penny Carver, Elizabeth Theiler, and Tom Glick, took the entertainment honors. The trio slid, slunk, crumpled and twitched to the beat of a jazz ensemble and Mark Mirsky's narrative...