Word: tiomkin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curtain goes up, the theme from Dimitri Tiomkin's score for the movie Giant fills the theater, grand, swelling, as spacious as Texas. The irony is quickly apparent: the several women and one man who spend their time in the five and ten in McCarthy, Texas, are spiritual midgets, made small by life and their own tediously limited ambitions. But there is a double irony, invisible perhaps to those onstage: Playwright Ed Graczyk and Director Robert Altaian can also be counted among the Lilliputians, and it would take the talents of a logician to determine who should...