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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Keith Lockhart, the Pops' young conductor, was as vibrant and witty as ever, cracking jokes and poking fun to ensure that all had a good time. The program was obviously not chosen to display the works of Mozart, Dvorak and Debussy, but rather to draw all types of people together in search of the audience's enjoyment. As Lockhart remarked prior to playing Duke Ellington's jazzy rendition of the Nutcracker, "This is like nothing that you have ever heard before." And he was right. Ellington's take on the "Sugar Plum Fairy," renamed "Sugar-Rum Cherry," was a superbly...
...mishmash of outfits suggested a lack of polish. It would be churlish, though, to harp on minor flaws in what was otherwise a very enjoyable set. One of their songs may have been titled "Queen of Melodrama," but the band managed to play a tight, moving set without ever straying into the realm of the melodramatic...
...Files ("it's really complex/To analyze what's next"). Scott & Chiqui displayed impressive pop-culture name-checking ("Just last week I saw Princess Amidala/Grab Portman by the collar"), a sense of humor (somehow Roy worked in the lyrics of the dreidel song in his rap on Hanukkah). "Have you ever heard of freestyle like this?" they asked in one of the songs. "Not at Harvard, not until now," would have probably been the most appropriate response...
When, and if, Yeltsin's presidency ever ends, the transition will be one of the first landmark events of the next century. There is a strong chance that the communists may regain power; Yeltsin's approval rating is unbelievably low, hitting two percent at one point over the past year...
...fashion-impaired George Aaronow, Juri Henley-Cohn ('00) delicately handles and balances a role which, had it been exaggerated, might have destroyed the naturalism of the piece. As Shelley Levene, an aging seller desperate for a comeback, Paul Monteleoni ('00) continually provides the play with energy and freshness. If ever this humorous vitality turns unwieldy, Monteleoni always manages to rein himself back in with a sudden change of tone or an expression that reestablishes realism in the scene. Although saddled with one of the play's less developed characters, Ray Courtney ('01) as Baylen displays comfort and wry humor...