...Christopher Durang Copyright © by yale/theatre 1976 1976 The Marriage of Bette and Boo by Christopher Durang CAST OF CHARACTERS THE MARSHALL FAMILY: BETTE MARSHALL MARGARET MARSHALL, her mother JAMES...

... have booed during the curtain call at the theater. In Romania this is like whistling in church. Or worse. More than twenty-five years ago Mom and Dad are in the bedroom. A scent comes from under the bedroom door. It’s my mom’s best perfume. I am playing with my sister, peeking at the door...

... clockwork, Kupfer comes on, and the boos start, and when Schavernoch comes on, you know they are going to boo the designer. Because they had made...

...- - the challenger, or the bad guy, or the dience. This time the audience screams. johnny-come-lately,or in any case the The timekeeper strikes a bell and the one who usually loses the match, is in- match begins. Not a second is wasted. troduced first. Right on cue, boos Koko clamps his arm on Lombardi’s...

...: And peek a boo Girls : Guess who Lorca: Is doing what to what pigeon Girls: Pigeon! Lorca: Doing what to what pigeon. Girls: Pigeon! All: Because no grass grows In the mouth of the dead. Because give us...

.... Boo! You got that. Goddam boo! (PETER tries to s&y something.) And if you keep slobberin' on me I will Shut the fuck up. pop your backbone. I will set my knee on You might want to watch out for that your 'pine and I willsnap You! Snap...

... I go, even in disguise, instead, baseball and box-lunch picnics. they find out where I am living We “Boings” loved to boo the bad calls and try to rifle my apartment. of umpires in ballparks. We drank I fly down to harry them from a beer and booed and called...

... the best of it. The audience by END OF ACT I11 this time is booing everybody. 127 ...

...! Beau! Beau! Beau! Beau! Now, home! Thank God, No more boo-hoos, and no boo-boos! We’re heroes! Take note, historians! Yes, down the boulevards we’ll parade! And they’ll shout “Bravo...

... theatricalization. But the audience is given Game Show’s advertisements. And nearly every power as well. The performers respond to boos audience member present was determined to and cheers—again, just as participants in a talk embody that ad copy. show do...

...- booed at one of the Cambridge performances. theless be “overstating the case” to suggest that Mamet’s own satisfaction with the controversy is Oleanna is sexist because, by the end of the play, smug and sanctimonious; one of the advertise- Mamet has “at least entertained the possibility” ments...

...- tions, but there will always be a realm ment in the struggle: not just the pride cant look on his face - make a little boo- of uncertainty, of the unmeasurable, of that goeth before destruction and the boo. Inadvertently, he loads a training the unthinkable. Charles Perrow, a Yale haughty spirit...

..., boos, whistling, .even threats of physical violence against ChCreau and the conduc- tor, Pierre Boulez. Yet on the last night of their Ring...

..., ed that’s what we’d do. 76 libretto by Thomas Corneille but for the never heard such booing. Euripides Medeu you created your own multi-lingual text, much...

... lose weight gain weight shut off pay overdue get beaten bite protest come cry boo get booed fight consumes gets consumed hear cause drama fuck a lot and the skin presses on, and along with the skin the filling, the body, the head, the thoughts inside the head...

... personal testimony, a gay subculture of the white underclass in Johannesburg. Boo- bie Doobies (1994), a cabaret celebrating camp and drag, represents aspects of gay culture previously unseen on the South African stage. Get Hard, Anton Burggraaf’s 1994 free adaptation of American Tim Miller’s My...

... critic complained, “It’s bad enough that Haifa chose to Right booed the play off the stage. As a result, Sobol and bring to life the cause of Jewish anti-Semitism. Why parade artistic director Gedalia Besser resigned. The Jerusalem it abroad?” Soul of a Jew later appeared at the Mark Taper Syndrome...

.... Puppet fisherman grasping at thin bam- the strings, pulling the puppet-actors’ elbows boo rods ride the rolling waves across the stage. and wrists, which in turn beat the drums in a A fragile lantern-seller laden with dozens of mad clockwork dance as the rains hit harder. dangling paper orbs teeters...

...”; “Hard Times” versus section twenty-­four from “Song of Myself.” After each, Foster was showered in boos and balls. The dark sap of Foster’s songs (Camptown ladies sing this song: doo-­dah, doo-­dah pos- sesses none of the vim of Whitman’s visionary erotics (Copulation is no more rank to me...

... off.” him: “As a stranger was I drawn in, as a A concert of boos such as the Schaubuhne stranger I now withdraw.” The Winter’s On the other hand, Holderlin is just...