Word: bisco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with effects--the weird lighting turns out very well--but less control of his actors. Michael Medearis plays the nearly mad son of a mad sea captain with melodrama in every syllable. This sometimes comes off. John Baker, as his father, teeters between vivid strength and hamminess, but Barbara Bisco, as the captain's daughter, enters her role with fine if sometimes sudden emotion...
Weatherwise, on the other hand, was a credit to the new society. Noel Coward's witty, fast-moving script was well-directed by Wink Neilson; and Barbara Bisco, Tina Cowley, Jim Rieger, Alison Mumford and Nick Strater all turned in well above average performances. Miss Mumford's transformation from a dignified British matron into a dog was the high point of the evening, and the quick exchange of patter among the members of her household never ceased to be amusing. It is fortunate that the Coward play closed the program, because it showed that the Leverett House group is capable...
Given Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass to start with, it would be hard to go wrong, and the Children's Theatre production of Mario Siletti's adaptation does not. With Barbara Bisco in the lead backed by an energetic cast, jolly costuming, and a musical score by Charles Gross, the show provides an hour of bright relaxation in the middle of the February slush...
...Miss Bisco, as an extremely winning Alice, speaks her lines more clearly than most of the cast, who occasionally bellow or slur Carroll's wit right out of the range of their three-to-ten-year-old audience. But thanks to Thomas Whedon's direction, even when dialogue and lyrics fail to overcome the steady mutter of the junior critics, the pantomime and by-play are sufficient to keep them entertained...
Female modeling was done by Barbara Bisco, Adrienne deChatelet, Joanna Shaw, and Marie Winn...