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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leading the cast, made up of various professionals from the Boston area as well as some Harvard students, is Rod Nelman as Figaro, a servant to the Count and Countess Almaviva. Ilana Davidson stars as his future bride, Susanna. In roles commonly given to 50-ish opera stars, it is refreshing to see two young leading singers play the parts of lovers who just can't quite seem to get married, no matter how hard they...
...Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has risen from architectural hodgepodge to full-blast cacophony. Where but in Tinseltown could you see such an overlay of styles? First, the flaccid institutional moderne of the original buildings designed by William Pereira in the early '60s. Then the deco-ish hulk of stripes and glass blocks shoved in front of it by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer in 1986. And now the only major public building by America's maestro of post-Wrightian, off-the-wall kitsch, Bruce Goff...
...mother] had heard there was a really good school on the East Coast," says Rodriguez. "I know it's cliche-ish, but she told me if I worked hard, I could do whatever I wanted to do, and that I could go to that school...
Robyn Fass is a delight as Alice Park, Susan's quirky, sometimes naive confidant. Fass takes the stereotypical character of the naive bohemian and turns her into a fascinating and realistic person, the perfect complement to the Lear-ish Susan. Fass captures Alice's precarious perch on the line between comedy and cynicism. The audience simultaneously shudders and laughs as she whips sarcasms and insults at her hapless student Dorcas Grey (Sarah Stevenson). Fass knows how to develop a character, and she has the timing and the bearing of a classic comedian, the ideal safety valve in a complex tragedy...
Suddenly the earnest, Howdy Doody-ish Midwesterner became an old-fashioned firebrand. He had found a voice that worked. "Dick has touched a deep-seated fear about the economic future of the nation," says Kirk O'Donnell, president of the Center for National Policy, a Democratic-oriented think tank. "This is powerful stuff...