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...starred in four past Gilbert and Sullivan shows, is singing at one end of the room. Standing in front of him, next to a working piano, is Karen Krag '76, the music director and conductor for Princess Ida. Krag is singing along with Fuller, using a pencil as a baton, and swaying from side to side with the rhythm of the music. Her long, thick hair is plaited into two golden brown braids. Dark, almost black, eyebrows give character and distinction to regular features and pretty blue eyes. She looks like a blonder, less painted, Maple Syrup girl...
...good time. As the chorus finishes a passage, Krag smiles and says, "Beautiful!" then reminds the singers to emphasize diction and watch their pronunciation of consonants. She asks them to do the passage again and remains seated while she conducts. Only the pencil she is again using as a baton distinguishes her from the rest of the cast. Gratto, the director, is seated in the semicircle with the chorus. She is filling in for several sopranos who are out with the flu and she makes up with gusto and expression whatever she lacks in vocal range...
...Pass the Baton...
...assume that if we can get $97 million in a depressed market, we will make more progress as the economy reverses. As we reach the point where it is clear we'll make it. Kingman indicates he'll be ready to pass the baton," Miller said. He added that Brewster has not explicitly stated the point at which he will consider the campaign successful...
...slim lead over Northeastern in the first leg that widened considerably after Schmidt passed to Maggio. Coach Bill McCurdy said yesterday that Maggio "took off like he was running back to Texas. All they had to do for the rest of the race was hold on to the baton...