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Niagara is a relatively young team, led by a core of talented freshmen. First-year standouts Stephanie Romain and Brooke Bradburn lead the team in scoring, while Tania Pinelli minds the net, with a 3.79 goals against average and a.916 save percentage...
...leads among the Venetians, New England Conservatory first-year Stephen Beaudoin fares well as the cheerily optimistic and slightly dopey gondolier Marco, his fairly hearty (but once again too quiet) singing matched with an eye for physical comedy. Krishnan Unnikrishnan '02 is equally endearing and doltish as Giuseppe, fellow gondolier and possible heir-to-the-throne. Unnikrishnan hams it up remarkably well with lots of giggly smirks and "Aw, shucks" glances, but at times this silliness comes out as slightly effeminate camp--manly gondolieri do not typically bat their eyelashes when they're being serenaded by a lovely contadine...
Speaking of lovely characters, Alison Walla, a first-year at Boston University, wins the award for "Best Performance in the Role of a Lovely but Airheaded Infanta." Walla is not only an entrancing and sweet-throated singer (when she is--you guessed it--being loud enough), but also a superb actress who manages to portray the beautiful ingenue (wrapped up in faux Venetian lace get-ups) with just the right amount of whiny, aristocratic empty-headedness...
Allison B. Hornstein, another Yale first-year,said the possibility that a faculty membercommitted the crime made it seem less arbitrary...
...Annenberg Hall, first-year students claimedthey do not understand Radcliffe or the servicesit offers...