Word: macphail
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Thankfully, Sondheim gives audiences a guide to understanding A Little Night Music right from the beginning. The wheelchair-bound matron Leonora Armfeldt (Lucy MacPhail '01) explains to her granddaughter (Kari Gauksheim '01) that people fall into three categories: the young, the fools and the old. MacPhail does a wonderful job with her elderly, jaded character, providing perspective on the play by holding the rest of the characters in brazen contempt. The Leibeslieders, a kind of Greek chorus, add another narrative layer to the work. Each of the singers parallels a character and performs occasional scenes based the plot, though...
...found her approach to writing veryrefreshing," said Lucy H. Macphail '01. "She madeit sound like less of a profession and more of aninternal thing. She's also so honest...
...Dodgers and the Red Sox finishing in last place in their divisions with lineups filled with high-price, low-performance malcontents. A small-market club, the Twins, won the World Series in 1987 and 1991. But the architect who built these championship teams, the Twins' boyish general manager, Andy MacPhail, is worried that Minnesota will be hard pressed to compete in the future, even though it just re-signed Kirby Puckett to a $30 million, five-year contract. "The new development," MacPhail warned, "is that large-market teams like Atlanta and Toronto now have both the revenue and the ability...