Word: kate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They are: David J. Baker '66, Johnathan P. Goldman '66, Alan E. Lazar, Craig Donaldson, Frederick P. Schaffer '68, John T. Sackton '68, George M. Tiller '68, Henry W. Corbett '66, Lucy Moore '66, Virginia Wiesell David A. Link '66, Charlene S. Chang '66, Kate G. Wenner '69, Patrick J. McGinity '66, Alan H. Venable '66, and James S. Wylie...
DALLAS, Music Hall: Kiss Me Kate, with Patrice Munsel and George Wallace...
This year Rush cut two new records: Tom Rush and Blues, Songs, and Ballads. While Tom Rush is no doubt the better of the two, Blues, Songs and Ballads has personality. It captures some of Rush's best performances: a riotous rendition of the old jazz tune "Sister Kate" acquired from Eric von Schmidt and a version of "Baby Please Don't Go" that I prefer to Mose Allison's. Excepting "Rag Mama" and "Drop Down Mama," which have inordinately good lyrics much of the remainder is pedestrian...
What is most impressive about this pair is their physical sparring. This has been carefully rehearsed, and one realizes that they are really playing with each other rather than opposite each other. The scene in which Petruchio withholds supper from a starving Kate is one of the few truly comic spots in the show, and it climaxes in Kate's stuffing a string of sausages surreptitiously down her bodice only to have Petruchio extract it. Elsewhere, she takes off one of her two high-heeled slippers to batter Petruchio, which gives a delightful new twist to his line. "Why does...
...three suitors of Kate's sister Bianca, Frederic Warriner's Gremio is undeniably droll. Garbed in lavender and flaunting a yellow handkerchief, he is a crotchet subject to asthmatic wheezing. When Kate's father asks about his material wealth, Gremio so delivers the word "pewter" as to shower his prospective father-in-law with spittle...