Mr. Wernicke's staging houses the Emperor and Empress in a radiant palace of mirrors and the dyer and his wife in a grungy, cluttered factory.
"A staged house evokes an emotional response -- people will pay whatever it takes to get it," she said.
By this stage house prices in some parts of the US had plunged by 50% and millions of housebuyers faced foreclosure.
Mr. Drake, 50, is a kitchen superstar, the winner of ecstatic reviews everywhere he has cooked: the Frog and the Peach and Daryl in New Brunswick, the Stage House in Scotch Plains, and his namesake restaurant, David Drake, in Rahway.
One day, to express his concern about the appearance of Philip Johnson's ballet theater, Saarinen took a palette knife to a clay model of the building and simply slashed off the projecting stage house.
"The big stage house at McCarter has those Gothic arches, probably 80 feet tall, and the 130-foot tower," said Hugh Hardy of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, the new theater's architect.
The stage house and audience house of the assembly hall were constructed at the end of the Qianlong period (about 1790).
The subsequent reverberation time (Tsub) lengthens for boxes closer to the stage due to the stage house with its huge volume, and a peak is observed at 1 kHz.
Loring Lake, formerly Johnson Lake, was also named for Loring as is the Loring Stage House, originally Loring's office.
Still, infectious main stage house singles "Smile" and "You," along with the emotive "Revolution," make this six-tracker far from disposable.
