Word: melba
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...aging Vera Simpson, in her progress into and out of a hopeless love affair. Karen Thorsell as Linda makes the most of the least individual character in the play, and Mara Lynn brings a wonderful, brassy professionalism to the role of Fladys Bumps. Minor parts, especially Renee Taylor's Melba, are well done. Both the music and the choreography seem just right, although at times the orchestra overpowers the singers...
...lesser principals were also consistently delightful. Charon Lee Cohen acted the part of Linda, Joey's girl, with pert assurance, and sang with engaging naivote. Laurie Could performed the role of Melba, the demon girl journalist, with the sort of fire and ice that has made her well-known to Harvard audiences. Andy Hiken, as the ncredible Ludlow Lowell, cavorted in the proper Runyonesque manner...
...this vigorous atmosphere came an array of exceptional people-Classicist Gilbert Murray, Singer Nellie Melba, Novelist Henry Handel Richardson, Actress Judith Anderson, Dancer Robert Help-mann, Composer Arthur Benjamin and Actor Cyril Ritchard. But it was symptomatic that most Australian artists and intellectuals found their careers abroad (and it is symptomatic of a changed Australia that this is no longer so true...
Born. To Patrice Munsel, 34, airy coloratura soprano who has divided her talents among the Met (La Périchole, Die Fledermaus), the movies (Melba), TV (The Patrice Munsel Show), and Las Vegas, and Robert C. Schuler, 38, TV producer: a second daughter, fourth child; in Forest Hills, N.Y. Name: Nicole. Weight...
Then as now, the Met was not an adventurous house: it depended on its unparalleled roster of singers, and while for years it attempted more new works than it does today, most of them met with little immediate success. When it launched La Bohème (with Melba) in 1900, Henry Krehbiel, in the New York Tribune, roundly panned the new opera: "[It] is foul in subject, and fulminant but futile in its music...