Word: hammed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Celimene's spacy cousin, Eliante (Natasha Shapiro) is more of a ham, Despite a dress that makes her look like Miss Havisham...
Especially strong are the performances of Laurence Thomsen and Maria Catherine Troy, who play the befuddled Dr. and Mrs. Zubrisky, leading citizens in the small Russian town in which the play is set. Thomsen is a clever actor, deftly mixing deadpan and ham. Similarly, the utterly natural theatrical poise with which Troy plays her part is admirable...
...intros are important because they let the audience get to know the different personalities of the group," says the Pitches' Kennedy. "Anyone who likes to be a ham will love a capella. The intros have become almost a necessary part of every show, and the audiences sometimes expect us to be funny...
Name AB R H RBI NameAB R H RBI K'joyan,DH 3 0 0 0 Bradley,3B5 0 1 0 McC'ghy,CF 3 1 0 0 C'nn'ham,CF 4 0 0 0 Durand,LF 3 1 0 0 Fisher,C4 0 0 0 Caprio,RF 3 1 1 0 LaBr'sse,RF4 0 0 0 R'nninger,1B 2 0 0 1 Kelfer,SS 4 0 0 0 Morelli,C 3 0 1 0 Roberts,1B3 1 1 0 Allen,3B 2 0 0 1 Ferrante,2B3 1 0 0 O'C'nnell...
...promising topic for a play, particularly not for a comedy. Visions come to mind of tables thumped and warheads somberly debated, of apocalypse incurred by accident or satirized with Dr. Strangelove glee. The pop-culture memory remains cluttered with the tendentious alarmism of the 1960s and with more recent, ham-fisted TV mega- epics such as World War III and The Day After. It is hard to see how any narrative on the subject could avoid being either dogged and dull or archly ironic and malicious. But Playwright Lee Blessing has brought it off. His A Walk in the Woods...