Auden, The Rake's Progress' set circa the 1950s works. The set changes were sweepingly cinematic, switching from one place to the next as if edited in a movie, with a seamlessness we're not accustomed to seeing on stage -- much less, an opera stage. That derrick for instance, turns into a crane carrying a cameraman. And one moment we're in Texas, the nest we're on a Hollywood set. When Tom Rakewell, the titular rake, gets swallow via a heart-shape mattress along with a prostitute, it visually, and almost literally, makes the point that the naive young boy from the country is losing himself deep into deprivation. Brilliant.
We could recount many other ideas like these -- a trailer that inflates to match Tom's ego, an inhabited doll house under a giant moon, a scarf caught in the wind as Ann Trulove opens the top of her convertible, an Adonis doing a Greg Louganis impersonation, etc.-- but the visual experience are best viewed in person. And you'll be surprised, we guarantee it.
Musically, by the way, you won't be disappointed either
Source link: http://sfist.com/2007/11/27/the_rakes_progr.php
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - A rush of vandalism has business owners angry...and poorer. Twice in the last 3-weeks their businesses have been hit. Drive-by shooters have put high velocity pellets into their windows. “Glass was piled up everywhere,” said Janese Cunningham, a manager at the Lazy Mattress Company who was called by police in the pre-dawn hours of Monday. “There goes another thousand dollars every time...It just adds up.” Carman Mancuso runs a religious gift and book store on State Street. Even with high deductibles he said, “It gets very expensive.” In fact some owners won’t even turn in a claim out of fear their insurance rates will go even higher. Cunningham’s first reaction when she saw the damage, “Thanks, there goes my Christmas bonus!” A dozen businesses around 21st South and State have been targeted. The shooters hit at night when there are few witnesses – if any. Police have swept the scenes for clues but haven’t even been able to find the pellets
Source link: http://www.abc4.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=24d44290-1093-42a2-940a-bba9d0e1523a
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