Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Simon Estes' dignified, sympathetic Porgy, though his voice is not as robust as it should be. (Injured during the dress rehearsal, he played the crippled hero on real crutches.) Individual honors go to Mezzo-Soprano Florence Quivar as the soulful Serena and the dashing Gregg Baker as the villainous Crown. The production, designed and directed by Robert O'Hearn and Nathaniel Merrill, is handsome, if not as spectacular as Douglas W. Schmidt's Radio City triumph. Arthur Mitchell, director of the Dance Theater of Harlem, assisted Merrill with the vivid fights and crowd scenes and staged the dances, underscoring...
...seller, stopping the action cold. Musically, the composer settles for a reprise when new material is clearly called for: Summertime, that delicious throwaway, comes back three times. And, surely, the jaunty tune of A Red-Headed Woman is more appropriate to the suave Sportin' Life than to the macho Crown...
Harvard and Cornell have tied for the crown both of the last two years and a crimson victory coupled with Big Red wins over Dartmouth Brown and Yale would once against throw the schools into a deadlock...
...race for the Ivy League crown hits the midway point this weekend, but three clubs have already established themselves as the teams to beat...
Some kind of stupidity, to earn 20s, victories against just 153 defeats the 20 ties to compile winning records against all but two Eastern teams, to in three Bean, of championships and five Ivy piles and an ECAC crown, and to reach the final game of the NCAA tournament...