proscenium

Director Nancy Medina’s staging, circumnavigating a theatrical circle, lifts the audience out of its proscenium passivity into something almost immersive and definitely interactive.

None of the proscenium is actually there, nor are the musicians heard running scales and rehearsing “Follow the Yellow Brick Road.”

"The story and the music itself was great for the Harris Theater, and honestly might have been dwarfed by this big gold proscenium with 3,500 seats."

The Delacorte was, she said, her group’s first proscenium experience in New York.

The surprise is how well the space works for dance despite no proscenium to hang lights from, or wings for the dancers to disappear into.