Word: deft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Displaying deft stick work. Holmes decked Konte and slipped the puck into the net to give Harvard a 2-0 lead...
...these group numbers, when the music is loud and the energy high, that the musical is most successful. The mambo contest in the dance hall is wonderful from the first syncopated shout. The extended pursuit of Jets by Sharks, and vice versa, which opens the musical is deft and witty. It is tribute enough to the dancers' skills that twelve people can have an elaborately choreographed brawl on the Agassiz's cramped stage without seeming awkward; credit for this must also go to the choreographer, Isabel Legarda, who assimilates Jerome Robbins without duplicating him. The production reaches its height...
...last month she and quite a few other seasoned showstoppers were in a theater two blocks from Times Square as part of the seventh annual Festival of New Musicals. Five shows, in 55-minute concert versions, were staged by the National Alliance for Musical Theatre under the deft stewardship of Joseph McConnell. The Alliance serves 83 regional theater and light-opera companies, from mammoth (the 11,059-seat St. Louis Muny) to mini (the 104-seat Village Theatre, in Issaquah, Washington), all of them searching for that vanishing species, the Broadway-style musical...
...with a pretty, peckish wife and a five-year-old adopted son. Allen's take on marriage is bleak, clueless; he sees it as a prison for two, where the condemned finally rise to a level of reciprocal pity. But in spite of all this, Allen still has his deft sense of humor: there's a good movie lurking behind his public troubles. "The suspicion lingers that Woody Allen deserves a good spanking, and not from a cheerful prostitute," says Corliss. "But listen: humor and sentiment can triumph over stern morality any day. 'Mighty Aphrodite' reminds us that Allen...
...made even harder by the extreme concision of our Milestones section, where newly admitted angels (and devils) must dance on the head of a pin--100 words or less. That's why we're fortunate to have Michael Quinn, who specializes in animating those angels with a few deft strokes...