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Members also proposed adjusting the amendments, suggesting making the limit 25 percent nonHarvard students in order to give more options to small-cast directors...
Which should have left the boards clear for comedy. And indeed two small-cast productions, Luv and The Odd Couple, emerged as the season's co-favorites, recouping their costs after only 80 and 29 performances. But in a season of the survival of the hittest, this was small cheer; 14 of the year's 17 comedies have already closed...
...first time, Menotti turned from small-scale, small-cast operas, such as The Consul, and created a full-scale Italian-style opera, used a large chorus and a 56-piece orchestra (he worked on it for a year, on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation). In preparation, Menotti made two afternoon field trips to Manhattan's Mulberry Street to get the flavor of his subject. He writes with absolute conviction in an idiom that was new when Puccini was young. His strings sing with silken suavity behind tender scenes, but brasses and percussion can also rasp and grump disturbingly...
...result of some hard thinking about opera in Ireland. Grandiose 19th century operas, he says, "require a large team of people, all of a high standard vocally, which you won't find in a small country, working together as a balanced team, which you certainly won't find in Ireland." He feels that the solution lies in realistic, small-cast operas whose vocal parts can be mastered by nonoperatic singers. His models for Balbhan were Menotti's The Consul and The Telephone. He chose Gaelic because it "suits comedy and character singing better than English, and there...