Word: graciela
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...from low-budget off-Broadway shows into films, regularly returns to the New York stage to play such classics as The Tempest and Arms and the Man. Tony Plana and Nestor Serrano have given some of the most noteworthy off-Broadway and regional performances of recent years. And Choreographer Graciela Daniele, a Tony nominee for The Pirates of Penzance and Drood, turned to directing Borges-inspired musical theater in the off-Broadway hit Tango Apasionado...
...song and dance comes to a halt in mid-syllable to mark where Dickens' novel breaks off. The audience then votes to select the murderer and therefore the ending. This do-it- yourself detection has been honed since last summer's tryout by Director Wilford Leach and Choreographer Graciela Daniele, the team that made a zonked- out Pirates of Penzance a 1981 Broadway triumph. Fully half of Holmes' songs are instantly hummable, notably the sweet Perfect Strangers and the plucky Don't Quit While You're Ahead. The show's style calls for singing and charm more than acting. That...
...volcano four miles away. On New Year's Day, guerrillas swept up the back road, firing into the village as they came. Ramón Portillo was killed instantly as the bullets pierced the thin green door of the house. They were only stray shots, maintains his widow Graciela, nothing more than that. But other versions of the story are softly voiced in the village...
Ming Cho Lee's grand ballroom and tapestry are as handsome as ever, and John Morri's substantial incidental music and songs stand up beautifully, supported by Graciela Daniele's choregraphy. The four supplementary singers are all back and in good voice...
...outset of the show, a flutist, cellist and lutanist take their place in a far corner of the hall. They provide the accompaniment for two unspecified songs, followed by a dance (choreographed by Graciela Daniele) in which the white-masked members of the court all participate. We seem to be watching a traditional Twelfth Night masque. And all this preliminary music gives added point to the play's opening lines, in which Duke Orsino refers to the "excess" of music, to a "dying fall" (which is accurately fitted to a descending cadence), and finally requests a halt...