Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thirty-one of the students were charged with disorderly conduct and four with criminal trespass, said Sgt. Dick Horan, a spokesman for the Groton City Police...
Morland plays the leading role with a casual coordination and energetic stage presence approaching that of Dick Van Dyke at his best moments, leading the rest of the cast in the opening song. "Company." At the end of the musical, in the full company number, "Being Alive," he radiates, making meaningful and heartfelt a song that teeters on the brink of pure schmaltz. He is also competent delivering comic spoken lines, "smiling even as he dies from drinking boiled orange juice," for example. His solo numbers, however, while still satisfactory, are a little hoarse by Saturday's late performance...
...Jury's defendant, played by Monnen, becomes Pinafore's handsome young hero, Ralph Rackstraw. Crowley assumes another leadership position as the ship's Captain Corcoran, and a newcomer to the evening's spectacle, Sebastian Knowles, plays the pompous Sir Joseph Porter. All three men, along with Craig Bierko as Dick Deadeye and Jo Milroy as Little Buttercup, give the evening's most superb performances. Crowley successively displays the Captain's frustrations in trying to convince his daughter Josephine (Nancy Fatzick) to marry Sir Joseph. Countering the Captain's well-meaning intentions, the lowly seaman hero Ralph Rackstraw falls passionately...
Knowles as the supercilious, genteel Sir Joseph and Bierko as the disgustingly disfigured seafarer Dick Deadeye play magnificently. Knowles, last seen as Figaro in the Lowell House Opera production of The Marriage of Figaro, gives a more distinguished performance this time: His production is impeccable and his stage presence especially his bulging eyes--is extraordinary, Bierko's loud, clear baritone, his bizarre facial contortions, and his dangling motions convey, in the best deadpan performance of the evening, Deadeye's extraordinary despicability and grossness...
Lizandick (liz n 'dik) n. pl. [contemporary usage fr. Liz and Dick, often followed by exclamation point, i.e., Lizandick!] 1. Archaic. Mythic American actress and Welsh actor whose names were eternally coupled despite their celebrated uncoupling(s) 2. Aging and forever expanding histrionic duo whose sum is greater than their individual parts, and whose mutual moves are perpetually played out in public (did you hear that ~ started a limited-run revival of Noël Coward's Private Lives in Boston last week?). 3. Any pair of people who come together, split, come together, split, until they seem...