Word: mcgowans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill McGowan, a technical advisor to the producers of the movie, who was meeting yesterday with various Harvard rowers, said he is busy doing research to prepare for the filming...
...child of 11, not a buxom woman of 20, when she met John Smith -- with whom she did not have a romance (though she did marry an Englishman and move to London). "I wish they would take the name Pocahontas off that movie," Shirley "Little Dove" Custalow McGowan, a storyteller of the Powhatan nation and for a time a Disney consultant on the picture, told the Washington Post. On the other side, Russell Means, the Wounded Knee insurgent who provided the voice of Chief Powhatan, said, "It is the finest film ever done in Hollywood on the Native American experience...
Leads Laurie Ann McGowan (who will alternate performances with Alexis Zeiff Martin) as Mimi and Frank Ragsdale as Rodolfo are warm if low-key lovers. Vocal prowess combined with comfortable English diction compensate for somewhat subdued interaction on both parts. (Those who saw "La Traviata" last year can't help but feel a pang of deja vu as McGowan lies dying of tuberculosis in the fourth act with Ragsdale clasping her palm...
...Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi directed by Liat Kaplan and Joel Bard starring Laurie Ann McGowan, Frank Ragdsale and Michael Morizio at the Lowell House dining hall March...
Fortunately, however, most of the time the words don't need to be poetry, but vehicles for the music. And the vocal and musical quality of the cast is consistently high. Laurie Anne McGowan as Violetta shows remarkable control of a powerful and expressive soprano voice...