Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Head," apparently, is nothing more than an opportunity for the world to watch boat races, visit a prestigious university, and yes, urinate and defecate in public. Such scatological reasoning may seem shocking, but it is the sorry truth...
...this version of Show Boat does ring with excellent voices nevertheless: Mark Jacoby's charming but feckless Ravenal, Rebecca Luker's steely Magnolia, Gretha Boston's ebullient Queenie and Lonette McKee's glorious Julie. (As Joe, Michel Bell sports an impressive basso profundo, but spoils Ol' Man River with a needlessly mannered performance.) Still, it is a relative nonsinger, John McMartin as Cap'n Andy, who is the surprising hit of the show: his desperate reenactment of the interrupted play-within-a-play, The Parson's Bride, is a comic highlight that stays in the mind...
...here, a gesture there, and a chorus is transformed from a mob into a collection of individuals. There are no haughty white folks and nobly suffering darkies aboard Prince's vessel -- just real people who know that sometimes it's not only make-believe. The beauty of this Show Boat is that it makes believers...
Neeme Kaik, an Estonian passenger, reached a lifeboat station as the list increased. "There was no activity among the crew, and I did not hear any messages," he said. "I grabbed a life jacket, and then the boat fell on its left side completely. I managed to jump into a rubber boat with three other people." Moments later, the 15,566-ton Estonia turned nearly upside down and sank, stern first, in 260 ft. of chilly water. Survivors estimated that it had gone down in little more than 15 minutes...
Theater: Show Boat just keeps rollin' along...