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Article: A harvest of cocoanuts, (dancetheater by choreographer Richard Sabellico)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 1996
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The small, oddly shaped playing areas of some Off- and Off Off-Broadway theaters call for particularly inventive staging. When George S. Kaufman and Irving Berlin's The Cocoanuts, the Marx Brothers's first musical comedy vehicle, was revived at the American Jewish Theater in downtown Manhattan, its director and choreographer Richard Sabellico had to summon all his ingenuity to offset a postage-stamp-sized stage, pillars that blocked some audience views, and the lack of conventional wings from which actors could enter and exit. The show, a comedy about a Florida real estate boom in the 1920s, proved an obstacle course, even for a director who has staged shows in spaces as ...