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...fault was Ronstadt's. Her voice seemed small and uncertain, and she was unable to move from her strong, rock-belter's low register to her silvery high notes without shifting gears awkwardly in her uncertain middle range, where most of Mimi's singing is done. It seems doubtful that her deficiencies are readily curable. She must have known early in rehearsal that the experts had been right to say that a pop singer could not make the leap to Boheme. She might have quit then and sunk a production that depended heavily on her name. That she stayed...
...galvanic as Holliday is Cleavant Derricks as a slam-bang comic belter sadly beached by new musical tides. A superb choreographer, Bennett is surprisingly skimpy on dances. Only one number, Steppin ' to the Bad Side, fully displays his stylish percussive mastery. But then, the entire evening marches to his drumming beat...
Crimes of the Heart. Three sisters, nurtured in Southern gothic grotesquerie, induce spasms of laughter in Beth Henley's Pulitzer-prizewinning drama. Dreamgirls. A pearl in the strand of notable U.S. musicals. There is dazzling elegance in Theoni V. Aldredge's costumes, and a young belter named Jennifer Holliday can start, stop and steal a show. (See above.) The Dresser. Paul Rogers plays a decrepit provincial Shakespearean actor-manager; Tom Courtenay, his valet. In double image, they are Lear and his Fool-and both are magnificent...
Like the lovelorn belter of the 1940s ballad Don't Get Around Much Anymore, more and more Americans are becoming chronic stay-at-homes. The high price of a night on the town is a contributing factor, but the lure of an evening in the house is more apt to center on what their owners call media rooms or entertainment centers...
...well as songs, the five-member cast is in perpetuum mobile. Carolyn Mignini, as Anna Held, is a seraphic soprano; Mary Catherine Wright, militancy incarnate as Emma Goldman; and Trey Wilson makes a bully "T.R." And in a gentle zephyr of a show, Lynne Thigpen is a bracing typhoon belter...