Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stop talking about race. Prop. 209, O.J., Piscataway, the gerrymandering cases, race and the death penalty, race and the law schools, race and the Oscars, race and baseball (black attendance is down): Is there an issue under the American sun that has not been given a racial cast...
...cancer and may not survive an operation planned for the next day, or making her debut at the Grand Ole Opry. The show features Rimes' incredible pipes, a touch of the supernatural and plot twists you can see coming from way over yonder. Most intriguingly, Bernadette Peters has been cast as a big-haired Nashville legend. Bernadette Peters...
What's more, in this opera all the players can actually sing. The majority of the cast deliver their "patter songs"--the quick-paced, witty recitatives that are the trademark of Gilbert and Sullivan operetta--with careful articulation of the words. This allows viewers who aren't familiar with the play to follow the plot and understand the jokes. Yamakawa and Rupp are more conventionally operatic singers. Yamakawa's solos are lovely, and the music occasionally surprises with its beauty, as in the grief-colored "merry madrigal" near the beginning...
...cloud of smoke and an attitude that brings to mind Cruella de Ville. But, playing Gilbert and Sullivan's somewhat enigmatic character to the hilt, Rupp injects a disturbing and note of tragedy into the entire latter half of the play; in the complex weave of The Mikado, this cast of darkness works surprisingly well, lending the play an unusual depth and richness of texture...
...cast wasn't quite as charming as Strauss' many waltz themes, but, then again, what is? Jennifer Sgroe, as Adele, was more versatile than Margot McLaughlin's Rosalinda; both, however, sang beautifully, and displayed a fine comic gift (but is this rare?) for exposing the stupidity and infidelity of men. John Middleton and Matt Greene were admirable as minor characters, the lawyer Blind and the infinitely sarcastic Frosch. Charles Baad had several great moments as the title character, the "Bat" who was out to settle an old debt of humiliation. Kristina Martin, who sang the role of the impostor Prince...