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...Just play our game and focus on our team,” junior Sarah Vaillancourt said. “That is what we have done all year.” Vaillancourt, a gold medalist with the 2006 Canadian Olympic hockey team, was recently nominated as a top-three finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award—an honor that is given to the top women’s college hockey player in the nation each year. In the regular season, Vaillancourt led the conference and ranked fifth in the nation in total points, with 23 goals and 32 assists...
...best director and best play at the Complutense University Festival for José Sanchis Sinisterra’s “Lope de Aguirre, traidor,” the first play she directed profesionally. “Chekhov in the Garden” was already a finalist in the Premi Born de Teatro, a coveted prize for playwriting in Spain, and reviews of the play are due out this week. However, despite the audience’s positive reaction, the 30-year-old Rodríguez was slightly disappointed with the performance.“I would say that...
...were forced to move Friday’s performance to Saturday because Julia S. Cavallaro ’08, who plays Fiordiligi, came down sick. In an effort to preserve Cavallaro’s voice, the part of Fiordiligi was sung by Vira Slywotzky, a New England Finalist in the 2008 Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions, from the wings of the stage while Cavallaro continued to act out her character’s two messy love affairs.“Così fan Tutte,” which means “women are all alike...
...sensational in grimy melodramas, from Illicit and Night Nurse to the immoral, immortal Baby Face. But she didn't get an Oscar nomination until 1938, when she broke from her normal screen character to play the nobly sacrificing mother in Stella Dallas. Seven years later, when she was a finalist as the rotten femme fatale of Double Indemnity, she lost to Ingrid Bergman, whose husband is trying to kill her in Gaslight. Oscar chose the wanly victimized wife over the fabulously victimizing...
...were forced to move Friday’s performance to Saturday because Julia S. Cavallaro ’08, who plays Fiordiligi, came down sick. In an effort to preserve Cavallaro’s voice, the part of Fiordiligi was sung by Vira Slywotzky, a New England Finalist in the 2008 Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions, from the wings of the stage while Cavallaro continued to act out her character’s two messy love affairs.“Così fan Tutte,” which means “women are all alike...