"This piece of property, with its dramatic mix of topography, is absolutely gorgeous," Mr. Nicklaus said.
Nonetheless, he continued to deliver galvanising live performances, and his 1991 album Happy Together was a dramatic mix of musical styles.
A burbling droid sweeps from right to left, instantly bringing in the kind of scurrying, worrying, seriocomic robot-presence with which George Lucas brilliantly leavened the dramatic mix in the first three films.
There are jabs at commentary on the corrosive power of wealth, but like James and Fanningg's characters, they don't stand a chance in this clumsy dramatic mix.
Tickets run from $39 to $79 and can be purchased on-line, at the boxoffice, or by phone (310-208-5454) L.A. is becoming even more of a great theatre town, with Harold Pinter playing on the far end of town and now this riveting drama in midtown, with The Wallis in Beverly Hills and the Ahmanson downtown adding to the dramatic mix.
The contemporary playwright can adopt any dramatic mode, mixing effects to shock the spectator into an awareness of self, beliefs, and environment.
But the power Schmidt exerts over this musical world is totally persuasive; he handles the huge forces - six soloists, as well as large choir and orchestra - with massive assurance, and an unfaltering sense of dramatic pacing, mixing narrative, aria and chorus in a way that looks back to Bach's passions.
A dramatic montage mixes Mr. Butler's black-and-whites with grainy Vietnam action and Mr. Kerry's 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
His images are dramatic but straightforward, mixing informal portraits — in "The Unwanted," he uses talking heads, speaking directly to the reader, to personalize the issue of African refugees in Malta — with larger panoramas of the scenes, and in many cases the devastation, he describes.
