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...lesser characters who try to separate them and to stifle their career plans, but who are finally vanquished by good fortune--a reunion acene brings the lovers back together again for the happy ending. Or during the opera parody, the music might structure itself around a Puccini-type love duet and a Mozartian recitative, accompanying the Romeo and Juliet-type plot formula that stands behind an avalanche of imitative narrative detail...

Author: By James Ulmer, | Title: Like King Tut, Only Alive | 2/13/1975 | See Source »

...backing of three Jackson-area black colleges-Jackson State, Tougaloo and Utica Junior-has made a musical theater workable. Students sing in the chorus, build sets and fashion costumes. Bayou Legend's simple but effective one-piece set-a double-trunked oak tree that for the Act II duet between Bazile and Aurore turns magically into a haunted grotto-required only $2,000 of the company's annual $102,000 budget, a moneysaving feat that could not have been duplicated in union shops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in Mississippi | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...other quarter-man in the Crimson's 440 duet, Joel Peters, put on a show for the home crowd, passing Dartmouth's Joe Durham at the homestretch in the quarter for second place, and them coming back to run a strong 48.8 third leg in the mile relay...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Track Juggernaut Humiliates 'Strong' | 5/1/1974 | See Source »

...loves a courtesan who loves his owner-prince, and who is eventually skewered to death by the prince's evil sisters in the Venetian equivalent to a voodoo ceremony. As the luckless, lovelorn slave, an expressive young dancer named Christopher Aponte is called upon to perform a sensuous duet with the courtesan's red cloak, leaving the unfortunate impression that he is secretly a cloth fetishist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: An Expense of Sprirt | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

Karen Morrow belts like Merman. Rob ert Guillaume and Gail Nelson do a stir ring duet from Porgy and Bess. It is all nostalgia, perhaps; yet most of the songs sound as fresh as opening night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Looting for Fun | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

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