Did the Atlantic Theater Company just pull off a first?
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Tag: A Crazy Mirror Showing Us Both in 5-D
Blocked
My obsession with obscured sightlines continues.
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From Will to Mel
A wrinkle in yesterday’s ode to open-caption performances presents itself when dealing with writing that deliberately chooses a word that could be spelled in multiple ways.
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Accessible Clarification Clarifies Accessibility
Does anyone else find it difficult to decipher every word sung in a musical?
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Hottest Toddy
Remember when I was worried that Roundabout would fail to properly memorialize the legacy of their dearly departed honcho?
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Ha? Ha!
The defender of the theatrical experience has logged back on (I never log off).
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TLDW: Summer, 1976
Broadway’s Summer, 1976 crisscrosses with a myriad of other art from this past year (and beyond), at least in a TLDW sort of way:
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The Little Aid
While we’re on the subject of natural vs. microphoned voice projection, a horrifying thought occurred to me while suffering through The Little Mermaid:
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Projecting
Being able to project your voice without the help of microphones is considered a lost art for actors of the stage today.
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Pulling a Nora
While we’re on the subject of A Doll’s House, it’s time to unleash my treatise on how many other shows overuse Ibsen’s iconic-cum-cliché ending, a tradition I’ve dubbed Pulling a Nora.
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