Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other end of the scale from the large theaters is the Lyric Stage (54 Charles Street, 742-8703). The small theater seats 114 people and it likes to term itself as "the best little intimate theater in Boston...
...size of a corner gas station, where there's an organ and a clunky, slightly out-of- tune piano. It's a Saturday. Several women are moving around in the kitchen; the small, bare chapel is deserted. Walter plays a quick phrase on the piano and sings the lyric faintly for Doug, and Doug (who does not read music) sends it booming back. Then again, with an altered stress...
Harvard's artistic community also gave her plenty of leeway to do what she liked, she says. Citing an atmosphere that allowed such inventive talents as director Peter Sellars '80 to flourish, Woods says Harvard "certainly made me very aware of, from a lyric standpoint, just how far I could get pushed and still have my creativity come forward...
...Lyric Stage's Presentation of Beauty goes up this weekend at 54 Charles St., in Boston. a twisted musical version of the traditional Beauty and the Beast legend, David Elliott and Barbara Phanuef's production is sure to draw large crowds for the modern version of the ancient fairy tale. Tickets are $12-$15. Telephone...
When he sings, it surely seems to. For his years, he has done a fair amount of living, not all of it above the law, and he has a voice that can really sidle around a lyric, sound smooth flowing and knowing at the same time. Forever and Ever, Amen, which topped the country charts for three weeks, is a straight-ahead tune, an up-tempo litany of undying devotion -- all right, it's almost corny -- but Travis pulls it from the brink of bathos with some hair- trigger phrasing and a very sly, very worldly tone of voice. This...