Word: sceneryless
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...With its lost...straw-clutching outcasts, its bullying and later blinded magnate, its endless rain of symbolic and allegorical smallshot, its scarred and almost sceneryless universe, [this work] can be most variously interpreted--somewhat after the fashion of the blind men and the elephant...
...penultimate minute, another empty theater was found. Cast, friends and well-wishers trekked 21 blocks accompanied by an upright piano in a truck. Blitzstein and the piano took the sceneryless stage, and as the composer played the score, the actors, scattered through the house, stood up and delivered their lines. The event took the audience and the next day's front pages by storm...
With its lost, disconsolate, straw-clutching outcasts, its bullying and later blinded magnate, its endless rain of symbolic and allegorical smallshot, its scarred and almost sceneryless universe, Waiting for Godot can be most variously interpreted-somewhat after the fashion of the blind men and the elephant. Under Godot's metaphysical counterpane, believing Christian, doubting pessimist, left-winger and existentialist can all find reasons to nestle for warmth. But whether Godot stands for God or simply for man's unconquerable hope, whether Waiting for Godot is a philosophic depth bomb or a theatrical dud, clearly the play...
...Tonight earned Producer Paul Gregory his usual fine reviews and should prove-like Gregory's Don Juan in Hell and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial-another big Broadway winner. There will be dissenters, however. Sceneryless and recital-like, 3 for Tonight yet aims at effects as soberly startling as a lady pallbearer. It is also a kind of variety show that not too wisely shrugs at variety: beyond Master of Ceremonies Hiram Sherman, there are only the dance team...
Broadway this week is as expectant as a darkened theater just before curtain time. In loft buildings and on sceneryless stages, a dozen casts are rehearsing for the coming season. At straw-hat theaters across the U.S., more than 50 other plays have already made bids for Broadway. Veteran showmen, scanning the theatrical horizon, counted the biggest batch of new shows in many a year...