Word: flair
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...Hough? Why now? The world, after all, is full of keyboard athletes, though few can match this one when it comes to the flair and sheer finger power on display in his latest album, a head-spinningly fizzy two-CD set of the ever-so-French music of Camille Saint-Saens, composer of Carnival of the Animals (Hyperion). But Stephen Hough is not your ordinary piano man. Uninterested in going the safe star-soloist route, he revels in playing the music he loves best in smaller cities and with regional orchestras. Yes, that includes Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff...
Other notable performances are offered by Price, Agresta and Alexander L. Pasternack ’05. Price manages the nuances of the slightly mysterious Vershinin with skill. Agresta’s acerbic wit adds a wonderful tragicomic flair to the play. Pasternack also fares well with the difficult character of Chebutykin, expertly conveying his slow deterioration from early optimism to a final scene in which he declares, “It’s all the same...
Courting only Cheryl, the boys ask the two on a dinner date that ends up enlightening all four on the subject of love and relationships, and provides the actors an opportunity to show off their comic flair. The play, with a plot that uncannily resembles an episode of a ’70s sitcom, moves from there through a series of predictable, but often humorous, situations...
James Wong, the director of Final Destination, demonstrates true artistic flair with his direction of The One. Additionally, he wisely eschews the usual clichés that seem to dog many American-made, Hong Kong-styled movies. The tired “kung-fu hip hop” of Rush Hour and Romeo Must Die is thankfully absent, with the actors essaying roles and not racial caricatures. There are no Ebonics or broken accents found here. Nor does he fall into the trap of simply repeating what came before. For example, countless other films from Reservoir Dogs to Kiss...
...wasn't exactly humming on the way out of "Thou Shalt Not." But I was happy to have seen a musical that takes on a nearly impossible task - creating an entertaining musical out of grim tragedy - with originality and flair. It deserves more than a one-way ticket to the morgue...