Word: gwen
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Gideon's estranged wife and current lover (played by the quicksilver dancers Leland Palmer and Ann Reinking) are virtually undisguised portraits of Gwen Verdon and the real-life Reinking. The hero's artistic associates are scabrous caricatures of past Fosse collaborators. Through a series of gritty backstage scenes and razor-sharp dance numbers, these players dramatize all the tensions, hard work and neuroses of idiosyncratic, inveterate show people. In Jazz's spectacular opening sequence, a Broadway audition, Fosse even creates his own capsule version of A Chorus Line...
...same time, weaknesses in breaststroke showed up as strong as ever, with the strongest finisher any Crimson swimmer could muster being Gwen Knapp's third place finishes in both...
Like the meets against Maine and B.U., last night's competition started a little ominously with the B.C. 400 yard medley relay team completely washing out the Crimson quartet of Katie Kelley, Gwen Knapp, Davis Wynne, and Cindy Phillips...
Other performers in the show, too, seem like those good, dependable singers who know their art but whose voices go a little flat on the high notes. Alison Carey's Gwen--the youngest Cavendish, who's torn between love and the stage--gives a fine performance except when called upon, in the ineptly-written love scenes or her own renunciation of a stage career, to display excesses of emotion. Rounding out the clan, Michael Cantor's Anthony--the rake of the family, who sold out to Hollywood--hams his way through his part with plenty of panache but without some...
...Gwen Knapp, another freshman, will lead what is left of the breaststrokers. The backstrokers are even more of a question mark with newcomer Caroline Marnock, recruited to reinforce their depleted ranks, unsure of whether she wants to swim this year...