Word: orpheus
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...information, bits of business, incidental eccentricities to fill a Bruegel painting or the panel of an old Mad magazine. And throughout are references to or quotations from Dante's favorite movies: The Searchers, Close Encounters, The Wizard of Oz, To Please a Lady, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Orpheus, The Road Warrior, It's a Wonderful Life, animated cartoons by Warners Old Masters Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett, the complete works of Roger Corman. You have to be sharp to catch some of the references. At a meeting of gadgeteers, Billy's dad chats with Robby...
Balanchine's musical acumen paid off, spectacularly, in an almost lifelong partnership with Composer Igor Stravinsky, resulting in such landmarks as Apollo (1928), Orpheus (1947) and Agon (1957). The first dance Balanchine ever made to Stravinsky's music in the West was a segment of The Song of the Nightingale in 1925, and the last major project he worked on, the City Ballet's 1982 Stravinsky centennial celebration, included a new version of Noah and the Flood...
...point of being regarded by some as a kind of Southern gothic erotomaniac. Williams dealt in taboos, yet the taboo is often the touchstone of drama: in the profoundest Greek play, a man murders his father and marries his mother. Williams mesmerized as well as outraged playgoers with Orpheus Descending (murder by blowtorch), A Streetcar Named Desire (rape, nymphomania), Summer and Smoke (frigidity), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (impotence, alcoholism, homosexuality) Sweet Bird of Youth (drug addiction, castration), Suddenly Last Summer (homosexuality, cannibalism), and The Night of the Iguana (masturbation, fetishism, coprophagy...
...Taras' observation suggests why the all-Stravinsky marathon was a success anyway. The troupe gathered and displayed its grand heritage, the modern classics (among them Apollo, Orpheus, Agon, Symphony in Three Movements) that Balanchine has set to Stravinsky over a period of 50 years. Balanchine worked out key elements of his style-bold, intricate, whip-fast-to this music. Stravinsky's rhythms and punctuation are the idiom of City Ballet dancers, so that their stab-kicking, hip-swiveling, long-leaping display is a unique ballet chronicle...
...know you, I know you," says the clownish John Styx, greeting an arrival at the gates of hell in Jacques Offenbach's comic opera Orpheus in the Underworld. "You do look familiar," replies the rubbery-faced Miss Public Opinion. He should; Styx is being played by Sid Caesar, 59, and Opinion by Imogene Coca, 73, stars from 1950 to 1954 of Your Show of Shows, a TV comedy classic. This week, in a rare appearance together, they will be reprising many of their best bits with some singing and much mugging in four performances of Orpheus at the Opera...