Word: duetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chairs, it is an awkward space for sold-out shows like these, but a large dance floor, constructed wings and excellent sound and light equipment made it a seemingly good space for the performers. Lighting effects were consistently excellent. Kepler and Weiss's use of light sticks in their duet "II," was especially impressive. Costumes were appropriate throughout the show...
...gaggle of children who perform in the ballet help make it both entertaining to kids and adorable to adults. What pint-sized prima donna ballerina didn't want to be Clara, prancing about onstage in the swirliest dress with the best doll and dancing that breathtaking (and romantic?) duet with the Nutcracker Prince? Some of the intensely traditional ballet's parts, however, may ring a bit uncomfortable with audiences today--all the little boys receive guns and promptly pretend to shoot one another, while all the little girls receive dolls and are content to sit and rock them. Yet despite...
...less equanimity as characters. At one point, Amy sang a solo expressing her mixed feelings about Charley, her lyrical musings about Charley's goodness interspersed with angry remembrances of a "picture of that woman in his room," something we had heard nothing about until that point. A duet Kitty and Jack sang about the what the future may hold was similarly original in content, bringing up subjects such as miniskirts and stereopticals, and fraught with tension between the couple...
...Mike is a wannabe nightclub crooner. Wallflower Marcia still lives with her parents. Marcia catches Mike's act; they fall for each other and seem headed for happily ever after until Marcia discovers Mike gobbling up fresh frog roadkill. Not your average boy-meets-girl story, off-Broadway's Duet! is a sweetly loopy send-up of '50s Hollywood cliches about love. Wittily weaving such pop culture totems as Hula Hoops and the Ink Spots into a cautionary tale, it's both hip and corny, ironic and romantic. And seriously funny...
...fixing that problem in Yugoslavia b) bringing a peace accord to Ireland c) producing the Mariah Carey-Whitney Houston duet...