Word: accompanimental
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But the sparks that best bring out the play's potential freshness are the performances of two young lovers, Esperanza (Cynthia McVay) and Moncho (Stephen Harrison), who manage to escape the symbols. McVay combines a casual beauty with an easy naturalness perfectly suited to her role as an unbridled woman...
The orchestra, conducted the afternoon I attended by freshman wunderkind Stuart Malina, provided sturdy if uninspired accompaniment. Harriet D. Silbaugh's Tudor scenery has ginger-bread-house charm. And all in all, two misguided performances notwithstanding, the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players give a classy operetta a yeomanly production.
Debbie Harry's performance is an analogue for the psychological violence of the cold war days, all pouty and conformist. She invests her love in new shoes and a blonde bleach job. The soundtrack is credited to Chris Stein, the other Blondie personage, but his electronic accompaniment resembles a melodramatic...
But the drive for a true change in the role of the nominating convention began after the Democratic disaster in Chicago in 1968, at which the wheel-horses of the local political organizations chose Hubert Humphrey over Eugene McCarthy, to the accompaniment of street rioting.
Yet the new work can stand alone. It brims with fresh material: accounts by veterans of the silent era, accompanied by some 300 stills, many of them previously unpublished, from the collection of Archivist John Kobal. The photographs, carefully selected and strikingly reproduced, add more than decoration to the text...