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THROUGHOUT Peoploids in Hunger City, the performers throw themselves into their work with enthusiasm no matter what ridiculous things they are requested to do. With straight faces, Debbie Wasser and Ashley Roundtree calmly strip down to silk negligee and fruit-of-the-looms as they sing the melancholy duet "Heroes." Later, Wasser submits to being beaten with a cord with equal aplomb...
...childhood romantic vision too far. Luisa tells how she sits and dreams--and then tells how she hugs herself until her arms turn blue. Again and again, a potentially moving moment is totally transformed with a wink of the eye, as it suddenly becomes absurd. An initially pleasant duet between Luisa and Matt (Vaughn Winchell) becomes odd--to say the least--when it breaks into a cheerful counterpoint of Matt singing. "You are love!," and Luisa rejoining, "I am love...
...DUET FOR ONE by Tom Kempinski...
Music may be a universal language, but theater is not. Any British play receiving a U.S. production can find not only its accent but its meaning changed. In its transatlantic crossing, Duet for One has been all but torpedoed out of the water. The unguided missiles of its destruction are a miscast director and star...
John Bellucci's Macheath is frequently too endearing a rogue. Bellucci fails to put sufficient distance between Macheath and the audience, even when addressing them directly, as in the Cannon Song, a duet Macheath sings with Tiger Brown. Bellucci's classical, stylized acting makes Macheath an adventurer, a guise sympathetic to the audience. But the actor strengthens in the second half of the opera, after Macheath has made his decision to visit the whores on Thursday as usual, knowing the police are after him. He acquires the stature that comes with a man headed compulsively to his doom: Bellucci dispenses...