Word: brassiest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jessica Fortunato's portrayal of Elizabeth Finch, an examiner of the dead, supplies the play's highest moments. Her throaty voice fills the entire theater effortlessly as she marches in like a Norma Desmond and seizes the scene. In the play's brassiest moment, she lies dying, strapped to a bed, awaiting a last ditch operation. Dr. Harmon dons his bird-like leather mask while Sarah, now a nursemaid, polishes an enormous knife. In a fit of pain, Elizabeth convulses and screams. As her bed descends beneath the stage, a beam of light illuminates her body and loud religious music...
Most ruinous, title actress Kathryn Zaremba, a nine-year-old from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, is loud and clear but never vulnerable or soft -- she's like Ethel Merman at her brassiest, without the compensating musicality, rather than a cuddlesome child. By the end there's hardly a wet eye in the house...