Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...film does, however, seem somewhat healthier than the play as written (contrary to current belief). And this is despite the fact that in every plastic sense, Ritt is a perfectly lousy director. Some of the scenes are indistinguishable from those taped on stage for the Ed Sullivan show. When Ritt wants the audience to know that a crowd is present, he frames a few hundred thousand people cheering. Period. When he wants to emphasize the "frail nobility" and "still small voice" of a group of blacks praying for Johnson before the stadium in Reno, he sticks them in what suddenly...
...Kalevala, the Sagas and the Edda. Let me give you an idea of how close it is. That evening these same peasants were cooking their supper over a fire of twigs on a raised, open hearth. The hearth was like the one you see on the stage in Act I of Wagner's Die Walkiire...
...more direct, ought to be one of the big hits of 1971. John's first U.S. tour-last week he all but filled the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and two weeks ago jammed Manhattan's Fillmore East four times in two nights-shows off a natural stage presence and timing worthy of a veteran stand-up comic...
...Aquarius ended with the flash of a knife early last December on a tumble-down raceway near Altamont, Calif. The Hell's Angels' motorcycle club had been hired to guard the stage at a free concert given by the Rolling Stones. From the very beginning of the day, there were bad vibrations all around. The audience was tense and anxious, the Angels, armed with weighted pool cues and other implements of destruction, tough and all too willing to fight. Several minor skirmishes broke out during the afternoon, and a member of the Jefferson Airplane was decked...
...time the Stones appeared, several heads had been busted and the crowd was in a frightened, surly mood. Even Mick Jagger, rock's definitive superstar, could not get them to cool down and listen to the music. The crowd pushed closer and closer to the stage, and the Angels just as angrily pushed them back. Suddenly, someone pulled a gun. The Angels went after him, knifed him down and did him in. Those close enough to the incident were appalled. Those who were not, quickly caught the mood of tragedy and left the concert silent and shaken...