Word: sing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...extra never gets to sing or speak, what are you principal activities on stage...
...extra doesn't sing, doesn't speak, and generally just moves around stage as part of a huge mass-what is it that makes being an extra so worthwhile...
Something similar occurs when Martha Schlamme and Alvin Epstein sing the Berlin and Broadway songs of Kurt Weill, as they are now doing at Manhattan's Bijou Theater. Singing is a singularly inadequate word; reincarnation is distinctly more appropriate. When these two are onstage, the audience is inside the skulls and the sensibilities of Weill and his most potent collaborator, Bertolt Brecht. One immediate impression is that the lyricist always has an enormous impact on the composer. Rodgers and Hart is light-years away from Rodgers and Hammerstein. In like fashion, Pirate Jenny of Brecht's Threepenny Opera...
...pattern repeats itself on the black screen, revolving twice with a one and a half twist like a lasarium with hiccups. Everyone in the theater, not just the accountant, watches the screen as if something were about to happen, as if these silly colored dots will line up to sing the national anthem. These people keep staring at the whirling colors until more colored balls tapdance onto the screen to announce the "Feature Presentation...
...Electric Horseman and all its simplistic neon sing-flashing will appear someday on TV. Being There may never, thank God, be there...