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...Maria C. Figueroa, a second-year in the MPP program, agreed...
...child as his own, rescuing the young Cosette (Danielle Raniere) from the clutches of the evil, greedy Thenardiers (J.P. Dougherty and Tregoeny Sheperd). Ten years later in Paris, a grown Cosette (Kate Fisher) falls in love with the student Marius (Rich Affannato), whom the Thenardiers' daughter eponine (Rona Figueroa) also secretly loves. Meanwhile, all Paris is one the brink of revolution, which breaks out with appropriate passion in Act II, bringing all the characters, especially Valjean, to their final, crucial test...
...However, Figueroa, as Eponine, remains by far the most three-dimensional and memorable character in the entire show. With a voice that rings with power and emotion few of the other actors are able to equal, Figueroa single-handedly creates the soul of the performance, only to be sorely missed after her death at the barricades. She deftly combines a street-smart savvy with the brokenheartedness of a woman in love, and becomes the most pitiable and beloved character to grace Les Miserables...
DIED. GABRIEL FIGUEROA, 90, Mexican camera poet; in Mexico City. Working with such top directors as Luis Bunuel (seven films), John Ford and Emilio Fernandez, this superb cinematographer illuminated many a craggy vista, from the parched roads in John Huston's The Night of the Iguana to the face of Clint Eastwood (in Two Mules for Sister Sara). Through Figueroa's lens, they all looked stark, profound, beautiful...
...compromise plan defused the constitutional issue but left bruised feelings. "Why can't the private sector raise money for public schools?" asks Katherine Masi, a parent who is a member of a local New York school board. "What we need are new buildings." Says eighth-grader Melisa Figueroa: "I understand how it might help, but the problems in public schools are still going to be there...