Word: kobart
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...with the wisdom of hindsight, the choices of youth. Two browbeaten wives and one henpecked husband toy with ditching their spouses, a notion that is faintly feminist for its time. Fittingly, the best performances come from Fredi Olster and Joy Carlin as the resentful wives and the delightful Ruth Kobart as a domineering dragon. Randall Duk Kim has wit and charm as Kobart's newly disobedient husband, but in a ghastly miscalculation, his Asian features have been caked with ruddy makeup so thick it resembles house paint. The show, superbly revived in London in 1986, is a souffle that never...
...Patricia Neway, whose presence the Festival was fortunate enough to secure, suffered (at least on opening night) from a slightly husky voice; but her acting was ample compensation. Richard Cassily, as Quint, was severe and impressive in his evil; and to the part of Mrs. Grose, the housekeeper, Ruth Kobart brought a warm understanding. Especially impressive, however, were the children, Bruce Zachariades and Michele Farr, who somehow managed to avoid both dooms awaiting most child actors: self-consciousness and cuddly cuteness...
...played by Patricia Neway, who won awards for it six years ago in New York. She is a superb actress as well as a consummate singer, and I found her performance here even more exalted than on Broadway. All the other singers were fine, notably Norman Adkins, Ruth Kobart, Lydia Summers and Leon Lishner. Chandler Cowles' staging was first-rate; and Evan Whallon's handling of the orchestra was expert, except for letting the piano play too loudly...
...season was the witch, decked out in a grotesque sausage-shaped nose (see cut), sung by Ruth Kobart, 23, a graduate of Chicago's American Conservatory of Music. Critics thought that Lemonade Opera might have uncovered a potential star in Juilliard-trained Soprano Mary Paull, who sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (and who translated the operas into English...
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