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Opening last Thursday night at Kirkland House and finishing with two shows tonight, Fiddler has received both standing ovations and rave reviews. The musical and acting ability of the cast deserves much acclaim, but the success of any production of Fiddler depends on the strength of the leading character, Tevye, who confides in God and the audience. According to director Grick Neher, "If the Tevye is strong, then the play is strong. If the Tevye is weak, then the play is weak." In this production of Fiddler the Tevye is very strong...
...year-old Seaga, a former Eliot House resident, was elected leader of Jamaica in 1980 and voted back for a second term in December. He has earned international acclaim as an economist for his role in representing Jamaica as governor of the World Bank and in other Third World development banks...
...likes of GM and Toyota. Even at home it has only a 19% share of the market, compared with Ford's 29%. To help cope with its giant competitors, the British firm has allied with Japan's Honda. The two companies jointly manufacture the perky Triumph Acclaim and are developing another model, code-named XX, that will be introduced...
Tuesday night's performance seems to say that ABT is potentially still the same company of international acclaim as its dancers are masters of classical ballet and also versatile in other areas. However, in the future, it must filter out those pieces that detract, rather than heighten that impression...
...Stoppard, he has taken the play's acclaim in cautious stride. "It's just a straight play that people have spoken well of," he shrugs, "so it might...