Word: classics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boston's Symphony Hall has a reputation of being one of the best performance venues in terms of its acoustics. Its interior is filled with white statues and chandeliers, making it classic and elegant, although the seats might feel a little like those in a Harvard lecture hall (no, not in the Science Center--no one would go see any respectable performances in a hall with purple carpet and green chairs); its beauty makes it the perfect place to polish one's social graces. If one goes, one must be cautious. To fall asleep would just be embarrassing. To clap...
Struthers, rather ironically, stars as the despotic spinster Miss Hannigan in the 20th anniversary production of the American classic Annie, which appeared at the Wang from November 3-8. And while it may seem odd, Struthers takes on this new challenge with abandon, even going as far as ripping the limbs from an innocent doll while belting out the lyrics to the song "Little Girls": "Little cheeks, little teeth/Everything around me is little/If I wring little necks/Surely I will get an acquittal...Some night I'll straighten their curls/ Send a flood, send the flu/Anything that...
...high point of the second act is the last scene, when the stage is turned into a gigantic Christmas party to the delighted ohs and ahs of the entire audience. After being told by Daddy Warbucks to get "gussied up," Annie descends the grand staircase wearing the classic red dress, shiny Mary Janes and curly wig, doing high kicks that would rival the Rockettes themselves. This happy scene is predictably interrupted by Annie's long-lost "parents"; but Schuck, as Warbucks, saves the scene with a masterful performance and a highly climatic rejection of the impostors...
...sweet, happy-go-lucky classic "Send Me OnMy Way" came later in the show, also after aseries of new songs, and got almost as hearty areception as "Martyr." In fact, everyone waschiming in so loudly and in-tune that Glabickisimply stopped singing, kept playing his guitar,and held the mic out to the audience. Overjoyed,the entire crowd at the Paradise sang the wholefirst verse and chorus, and continued backing theband up even after Glabicki and company joined inagain...
...happening, and sell the surreal with their gregarity. David Arquette is set with a particularly difficult part in the role of Tommy, who must be both densely naive and a stunningly talented salesman. His innocent pursuit of a sophisticated older woman has a good shot at being the new classic in the older woman-younger man scenario. Kate Capshaw is similarly adept in this situation; she is seductive without being evil, and perfectly outrageous when she is introduced to Tommy's provincial family...