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...first act is depressing, as we watch Mr. and Mrs. Jarrett (Elliot JohnMarks and Lisa Halliday) argue over the best way to deal with their son's nightmares and flashbacks. The orchestra handled the score well, but the tunes aren't particularly melodic or singable, so the action seems to drag. While some of the dialogue fits easily into a musical style, at times it comes across as forced or awkwardly phrased. The highlight of the act is "Christmas," a number sung by Conrad, his parents, and his grandparents. Dr. Berger also adds some comic relief: in response to Conrad...
...Halliday gave a great performance as Mrs. Jarrett, trying desperately to pull her life back together. Constantly wanting to run off with her husband to Spain or Portugal, she doesn't know how to deal with Conrad's return from the hospital. Halliday was one of the few in the cast whose voice really comes through. This was especially helpful in her duets with Marks. Susannah Hills, playing Conrad's friend from the hospital, had another strong voice, which unfortunately was only heard for two songs in the first...
...really love the holidays," adds roommate Lisa A. Halliday...
...saving grace of this production is its cast. Terrio and Lisa Halliday give engaging performances as schoolchildren, capturing the posture, motions, and tone of early adolescents. Wietzner's Mother Lovejoy is consistently amusing. Though her movement on stage is unconvincingly agile for a woman of Mother's age, Weitzner's accent, gestures, and facial expressions communicates clearly the attitudes of this pushy ex-belle who's main concern is to seem "aristocratic." Krohn's Loreena is lovably nerdy and woebegone, and her characterization is strongest not when Loreena is speaking but when she is listening, nearly forgotten, as the others...
...Wine Atlas of California and the Pacific Northwest (Simon & Schuster; $45) is also organized by AVAS. Its military-precise maps are much better than those in Halliday's atlas, which are mostly in murky shades of camouflage green. But author Bob Thompson's prose is pedestrian, and his assessments of wineries have as much tang as blush...