Word: eichkern
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This is just as well, since the beginning is pretty disappointing. The first rumble is confused and unmenacing, the first few songs drag and don't get much of a beat, and Bill Nabel and Jane Eichkern are understandably unable to make their sudden ecstasy of inexplicable love convincing. About the only thing that does work is Peter Agoos's set, which has a fine flavor of New York to it, although even given the city's infinite variety it seems unlikely that Doc's drugstore would charge 30 cents for a Coca-Cola and 29 for a milkshake...
...production builds steadily, reaching competence towards the end of the first act and threatening to surmount it for the rest of the evening. Nabel and Eichkern both sing well, and though his characterization isn't terribly heroic, her threat to shoot everybody on stage at the end (oh, dear!) is surprisingly solid. Bob Berger's choreography for the dream sequence, and Lindsay Davis's costumes for it -- a set of immaculate white robes for the solemn lookers-on, spotless black for the duellers -- is particularly effective...
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