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With excellent leads, and a variety of clever and funny supporting players, the Dunster House Opera has produced a "Figaro" not to be missed by anyone who likes opera, Saturday's performance had a long waiting list, so make your reservations...
Every character gets a solo aria or two to set out his or her essential nature: Figaro is clever and good-hearted, the Countess is heart-broken, the Count is imperious, Cherubino is perpetually lovesick. Almost without exception, this cast handles the famous arias beautifully Saccente has a strong voice and stage presence, and none of Figaro's comic nuances escape him; he is excellent in the patter of 'Aprite un po, Figaro's attack on female infidelity, and in the touching final duet with Susanna. Benaim, as the Count, has perhaps the most pleasing voice in the cast, combining...
...surprisingly, such spoofs of pop culture are a staple of Mad TV's lineup, and some of its filmed movie parodies have been especially clever. Gump Fiction set America's most beloved dumbbell in the world of Quentin Tarantino, and unlike so many famously unfunny SNL skits, it actually gained momentum as it went along: See Forrest dance awkwardly with an Uma Thurman look-alike; see him assassinate President John F. Kennedy...
...first episode, we learn that Peyton has grown up, Sabrina-like, in the servants' quarters of the Burton family mansion. Though she is desperate to partake of the Burtons' world of wealth and good teeth, she can't get the hang of it. She is clever enough to have an affair with Reese's thick-necked fiance, but all she manages to get is a bracelet of cubic zirconium. There is pathos here because, deep down inside, Peyton is just a pained little girl. We know this because there is a teddy bear...
...filigree work, matches the best that classical contemporaries like Josef Hofmann or Josef Lhevinne had to offer. Her performance of Gershwin's Fascinatin' Rhythm out-Gershwins the great man himself. Confrey's rhythmically tricky 1921 showpiece, Kitten on the Keys, is novelty's signature tune, but his Humorestless, a clever musical pun on both Dvorak's Humoresque and Stephen Foster's Old Folks at Home, is equally typical of his exuberant style. Most ambitious of all was the "Girl Gershwin," Dana Suesse (pronounced Sweese), born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her complex compositions such as Afternoon of a Black Faun...