The hit songs that Kretzmer had written for the French crooner Charles Aznavour ("She," "Yesterday When I Was Young") had brought him to the attention of the producer Cameron Mackintosh, who had hired him to reimagine a two-hour, sung-through tableau vivant, written five years earlier, in French, by the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg and the lyricist Alain Boublil.
The actor Blair Williams narrated the proceedings like a futuristic visitor wandering through tableaus frozen in time, connecting the music and art with readings and fascinating historical tidbits.
The game is much like regular solitaire — founding aces, flying kings — tweaked by the addition of six cards that must proceed directly to the foundation without passing through the tableau.
I am streaking through this tableau in a silver-blue Maserati coupe, accompanied by the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso — a treasured recording of his performance of the Verdi aria "Celeste Aida" is soaring on the stereo.
The Model Railroad Garden runs 16 working vintage model trains through a tableau of extreme plant-tending surrounding occasionally kitschy replicas of American landmarks (especially Frank Lloyd Wright homes).
The shift from ear to eye may well reflect the extent to which he became more conscious of the ways in which he could reach playgoers not only through his mellifluous verse but also through powerful tableaux.
He starts in Ancient Egypt and travels in time through 11 tableaux, ending in the icebound twilight of humanity.
By Emily Nussbaum The adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel dramatizes Offred's claustrophobia through gorgeous tableaux of repression.
Instead, it is heavy-handed in the best way, dramatizing Offred's claustrophobia through gorgeous tableaux of repression.
War rugs document protest, dissent, revolt and foreign aggression, and employ the symbols of warfare on both sides, including tanks, helicopters, grenades and Kalashnikovs woven through the tableaus.
"The Handmaid's Tale" Emily Nussbaum reviewed HBO's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's book, writing that it dramatizes "claustrophobia through gorgeous tableaux of repression".
