Word: herring
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Zachary D. Herring...
...gonna believe a crazy guy?" But Chuck too is under Teddy's suspicion; they'd never met before getting on the island ferry, where Chuck greeted him with a cheerful "Teddy Daniels, the man, the legend." Is Chuck a man or a myth, an ally or a red herring? (See the top 10 movie performances...
...It’s a red herring,” he said. “The consequences [of not having a mayor] are virtually none...
...audience and the cast, as the more nuanced dynamic gestures often disappear beneath the accompaniment. Lucid narrative drive compensates for the occasional gaps in audibility, though, and a coherent collective vision of the direction of each scene helps anchor the plot to a regular pace (“Herring,” with apologies to Britten, does tend to saunter rather than walk). Matthew B. Bird ’10, as the village vicar, has the clearest sense of his surroundings and produces a correspondingly full sound that drew the most out of an otherwise secondary role. Bridget Haile...
...swings into a harsh sort of jazz, sung with appropriate swagger and well-coordinated stage direction that emphasizes the awkwardness of the moment for Albert. Imitation folk songs are sung in a child’s squeal. Mock-Italian quintet singing is delivered with appropriate exuberance. Herring hiccups repeatedly to the “Tristan und Isolde” chord before he goes out for his night on the town—Britten’s in-joke to regular operagoers, and one entirely appropriate for an opera that depicts desire as transgressive as Wagner’s, but with...