Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Skiffer and Toomer are almost never off stage. If they are not dishing out wisecracks (one woman refers to the biker-dentist boyfriend of the ingenue as "the leader of the plaque"), they are belting out terrific songs. These women are so great that it's a wonder that the audience pays any attention to the real plot...
...also be commended for the wonderful costumes of Little Shop. The trio's outfits range from basic black to sequins with appropriate minor alterations--Chinese jackets, dental hygienist coats--for every scene they appear in. Each of Audrey's tacky outfits is funnier than the last, and the biker dentist sports a leather jacket with a bleeding tooth on the back...
...Quite early I thought that I had fallen into the pot. It was never gringos against us. I lived in a world of complexity, and I quite clearly was in love with most of it...I was taught by Irish nuns who had Mexican passports. There was a Chinese dentist putting his hands in my mouth, my beautiful uncle from India, and the Irish nuns: [all] changing me, breathing on me. It never came as a choice...
...contrast to the cinematically luxurious Greed, the libretto of McTeague -- by Bolcom's longtime collaborator Arnold Weinstein and director Robert Altman -- relates the action in spare, simple prose. McTeague (tenor Ben Heppner), a powerful brute who has set up shop as an unlicensed dentist in San Francisco, falls in love with his best friend Marcus Schouler's girl, Trina (soprano Catherine Malfitano, in a marvelously sensual performance). After Trina wins $5,000 in a lottery -- and McTeague's practice is ruined when the jealous Marcus (baritone Timothy Nolen) reports him to the authorities -- the relationship sinks slowly into a morass...
...symposium runs today from 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. All graduates and members of the Massachusetts Dentist Society were invited to attend, and approximately 200 are expected, said Mary Cassesso, director of admissions for the Dental School...