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...tangled in each other’s thighs. Maggie is portrayed wonderfully by Rebecca A. Wald ’07, whose enthusiastic acting and clear singing voice are only a couple of the cast’s many assets. W. Chace VanderWolk ’07 and Amanda M. Gann ’06 brilliantly find chemistry and play off each other as Duncan and Sarah. Plumb himself is ably portrayed by Gardner B. Smith ’07, who manages not only to shine as a mean and sarcastic live man in the first act but also...
Moviegoers should probably shut their eyes for the first few seconds of The Journey of Natty Gann and miss the production company's logo. Those who insist that the studio in question maintain certain prissy and unrealistic standards about onscreen language and incident will thus be spared needless outrage upon hearing the film's adolescent heroine mutter the odd four-letter word on stressful occasions, for example when she has to fight off a man intent on molesting her. Those who have a different set of expectations for the company's works will not feel obliged to hedge their enthusiasm...
...truth is that Natty Gann is a very good movie by anyone's standards. Set in the 1930s, the film has an unhurried pace, and the amplitude with which it envisions the land, its alternation of the idyllic and the menacing, evokes one of that era's classic forms, the road movie. And then, in effect, reimagines it. Here the road movie's traditional protagonist, the wayfarer whose only resources are wit and courage, is transformed into a young girl. Enchantingly played by Meredith Salenger, 14, Natty is obviously more imperiled by the hobo life than a man would...
...other main draw of this production is its acting. As the heroine Polly, Amanda M. Gann ’06 is the star of the show, with outstandingly clear, fine and well-phrased singing; limber dancing; and a portrayal of a self-reliant and independent but not stubborn young woman. As the other women in Bobby’s life, Joanna D. Goldstein ’06 and Diana K. Bowen ’04 are equally excellent. Goldstein, playing Bobby’s domineering and sexy fiancée Irene, becomes a tiny bundle of sheer outrage over something...
...choreography, by Amanda M. Gann ’06, is another standout feature of this production. Some of the moves are dubious (Private Willis attempts to dance the Macarena to his solo), but most are strong, like the comically half-hearted and self-conscious dance leaps by the Lord Chancellor and Strephon, the Lord Chancellor’s fluidly shifting nightmare scenarios, or the tensely balanced face-off between the Lords and the fairies in the House of Parliament...