Word: audra
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...Friday, Bergman topped Northwestern’s Audra Cohen, the top singles player in the nation, in a 4-3 loss to the No. 4 Wildcats (11-1). On Saturday against No. 9 North Carolina (11-4), Lingman defeated Kendall Cline, the No. 23 ranked singles player, contributing to the Crimson’s 5-2 rout of the Tar Heels...
...singles qualifiers, Lingman rolled through two matches in straight sets before falling 6-0, 6-2 to Northwestern’s Audra Cohen to narrowly miss qualifying for the main draw. While Bergman also lost her third match (6-2, 2-6, 6-4) after winning two demanding three-setters, she advanced to the main draw as a Lucky Loser. Ironically, she was matched up against Zerene Reyes—the same player who had just edged her in the previous match. After dashing off to quick 5-2 lead in the first set, Bergman dropped the next five games...
...damage to the play is slight because it shifts the focus to where (if it weren't for Sidney Poitier, who originated the role) it might have always been: on the women. As his wife, musical star Audra McDonald keeps her head down and her emotions in check, letting them loose in small, startling bursts. Sanaa Lathan is winning and funny as Walter's headstrong sister. Former Cosby Show star Phylicia Rashad, dumpy and nearly unrecognizable as Walter's mother, breaks through the cliches to create an unsentimental portrait of moral strength in the midst of squalor. But nearly every...
...Flash: Audra McDonald sings standards! In the hotly awaited follow-up to her debut CD, Way Back to Paradise, Broadway's most adventurous singer offers a shrewdly mixed bill of old favorites (The Man That Got Away) and postmodern show tunes (Come Down from the Tree). Her silver voice is smoky yet refined, her diction clear as a cold mountain stream. Best of all is a passionately sung medley of Leonard Bernstein's Somewhere and Adam Guettel's How Glory Goes (from Floyd Collins), which she turns into a haunting declaration of doubt-flecked faith...