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...eyes and noses. (The singers who provide the voices of the creatures are miked offstage.) Even jaded adults get a joyful frisson when Moishe, Tzippy, Bruno, Bernard and Emil come bouncing onstage, rolling their terrible eyes and gnashing their terrible teeth. Constructed by Britons Paul and Gill Fowler for the world premiere of the opera at Glyndebourne last year, they were refined and improved for the American production. Brought to life by Knussen's witty score, which slyly quotes from composers as disparate as Mussorgsky and Debussy, they may be the most engaging anthropomorphs to appear on the operatic stage...
...know," Fowler said, chewing on a lip. "It looks like the Dogpatch of baseball...
...crummy," Fowler recalled. "It was falling down. It was a farce. The sign said 289 ft. on the rightfield fence. We paced it off. It was 260 ft. A little pop-up would go over for a home run. No wonder major league teams didn't want to put players in here to test their abilities. Anybody could get 40 home runs in this park...
...wrote The Boys of Summer, ran the Blue Sox through a pennant and right into a lyrical new book, Good Enough to Dream, released this summer. The title was a characterization of his team. But now Kahn was gone, his players scattered to dusty lots all over America, and Fowler was on his way to the bank for second and third mortgages...
These men needed a pocketful of miracles; they got a couple of lucky breaks. Already on the boards was a proposal by local and state authorities to renovate the ball park. Encouraged by that, Fowler and Larson went to the winter baseball meetings in Houston looking for a major-league affiliate, a parent, but got no takers. Desperate for somebody in baseball to take them seriously, Fowler searched his mind and hit upon a natural...