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Costume couture Mask, cape, action! High drama backstage at 'Phantom'; A PHEW PHANTASTIC PHIGURES 36- Actors and actresses in each peformance 28 - Semi-trailers needed to haul the show from city to city 300 - Costumes, including duplicates for understdy and "swing" roles 250 - Wigs 200 - Pairs of shoes 56XL - Size of the largest costume (male) 0 - Size of the smallest costume (female) 10 - Minutes before curtain time when actors must be in costume 5 - Minutes before cutain time when actors must be wigged 45 - Duration (in seconds) of quickest costume change 100 - Yards of hand-made piping in the Phantom's Red Death costume 40-50 - Yards of embroidered peach taffeta in Christine's "Don Juan" costume 2 - Times a week the under-clothing "skin parts" of each actor's costume are laundered
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A beak-nosed Tweedle-Dum mask, padded with soft moleskin, peeks
from a portable closet.
Point d'esprit tutus snooze like opossums, suspended upside-down
after a vigorous fluffing. Wigs curl in taut corkscrews, scoffing at
the pull of gravity, shrugging off the wiles of summertime humidity.
In the bustling costume department of Andrew Lloyd Webber's
acclaimed "The Phantom of the Opera" touring company production,
business as usual is conducted in environs both menial . . . and
magical.
Milk-white cravats settle in a lump, in visible need of invisible
mending. Dainty parasols line up ...
 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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ISLAND CAVE BELIEVED TO BE SITE WHERE EURIPIDES PENNED PLAY.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...Archaeologists have found the hideaway used by Euripides to write at least one of his timeless...letters of Euripedes' name in Greek. Euripides, the iconoclastic poet believed to have...contemporary. Lolos thinks at least one of Euripides' plays, ``Hippolytus,'' was inspired...
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GOETHE'S IPHIGENIE AND EURIPIDES' IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS
Magazine article from: AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association
; ...mutatis mutandis, contemporary views of Euripides himself. Certainly, we can deduce from...Athenian minds in the fifth century BC Euripides was too modern and even, if we translate...and imaginative-in which Goethe made Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris his own. Clearly...
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Trojan harlot? I think not Euripides' play presents Helen as a model of wifely fidelity
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...Frank McGuinness, whose adaptation of Euripides' Helen opens at Shakespeare's Globe today. 'With this play, Euripides turned the traditional myth of Helen...one of Athens' great tragedians, Euripides was also - as the plot of Helen proves...
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Euripides With a Beat: `Orestes' as Rock Opera
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...And that can mean only one thing: Euripides is gonna rock. In recent seasons, the...Broadway. Phone (312) 404-0048. Euripides was the youngest, and in many ways the...dramatist Mee has stuck closely to the Euripides original, he also has built a 20th century...
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Silent Witness: Racine's Non-Verbal Annotations of Euripides.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...Racine's Non-Verbal Annotations of Euripides By SUSANNA PHILLIPPO. Oxford: Legenda...creative writers of his time), used Euripides more than Aeschylus or Sophocles as source...Racine's non-verbal annotations of Euripides and his own tragedies. She stresses...
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Euripides is given a kicking ; THEATRE
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...Katie Mitchell summoned up the spirit of Euripides's Trojan Women, with captive females...which Frances Viner's adaptation of Euripides's most influential play is filtered...supposed to help you to know yourself. Yet Euripides called for just such a balance between...
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Dark comedy.(Euripides. Vol. 5: Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes)(Euripides. Vol. 6: The Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion
; David Kovacs, editor Euripides. Vol. 5: Helen, Phoenician Women...the late, bleak, crazy plays of Euripides: Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark...editing all six volumes of the new Loeb Euripides. The final two volumes contain Helen...
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Apollo's oracle in Euripides' Ion ambiguous identities in fifth-century Athens.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Ancient Narrative
; ...fifth century BC. (1) It looks at Euripides' Ion as an example of an author who...conventions of the oracular discourse Euripides unmasks the underlying principles that...ideological contradictions as human society: Euripides' account depicts religion as both a...
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GREEK DIG PINPOINTS PROBABLE CAVE USED BY AUTHOR EURIPIDES.(News/National/International)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ...the island cave where the playwright Euripides probably wrote some of his ancient masterpieces...week. Historical evidence has indicated Euripides, the latest of three great Athenian...south of the island. ``The pot with Euripides's name is a unique find which adds...
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Euripides' The Bacchae by Kneehigh Theatre
Magazine article from: Western European Stages
; Euripides' The Bacchae by Kneehigh Theatre Kneehigh...Hammersmith with their adaptation of Euripides' The Bacchae last fall (I saw the performance...poetry, songs, and dialogue inspired by Euripides' original." This approach changed...
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