Word: flanigan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This makes it possible for productions to be opened and polished in Cooperstown, then moved to New York City, where they can be seen by bigger audiences (and telecast over PBS). The two companies also share an ensemble of theatrically savvy young American singers, foremost among them soprano Lauren Flanigan, whose Olivier-like immersion in her roles has won her a well-deserved reputation as the thinking person's diva. Flanigan sings two sharply contrasting parts in Central Park--a frustrated divorce in The Festival of Regrets (book by Wasserstein, music by Deborah Drattell) and a desperate bag lady...
...This Don is an aging lech so enervated by his exploits that he spends most of the opera being pushed around like a paraplegic. The approach may not be quite what Mozart had in mind, but the gutsy cast of young American singers, led by James Maddalena and Lauren Flanigan, makes a thoroughly gripping case...
...feast of Purim, is one of the Bible's most gripping tales, and Weisgall, working to a libretto by Charles Kondek, has told it well. Tunes, no; drama, yes. The stark and uncompromising Esther is a powerful evening of musical theater, highlighted by the electric performance of soprano Lauren Flanigan in the title role...