Word: melissas
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...young Arab-American couple, return to the house where Jane grew up in order to pack up her remaining belongings before her move to New York, where she is going to be a professional dancer. As soon as Tarik leaves Jane's room, the ghost of Deedee (Melissa Gibson '99), Jane's best friend from high school who died seven years earlier, appears and demands that Jane paint a portrait...
Much about this production was not clear. While the plot was interesting, if a little too heavy-handed, the actors made watching the play uncomfortable. For some reason Melissa Gibson's Deedee-as-ghost ran laps around the stage while nastily berating poor Jane. Why was she berating her? Aaron Mathes seemed to have difficulty with Tarilc While he was appealing (mostly for lack of any positive male characters), his mood changes and facial expressions were awkward as well as unexplained. Santiago Tapia delivered Samir's lines unsure of appropriate emphasis. He did not seem comfortable moving around the stage...
...advocate of the idea that the album should feature only women--a popular concept these days, with such recent all-female CDs as the pro-choice compilation Spirit of '73 (with Rosanne Cash and others), the MTV-sponsored Ain't Nothin' but a She Thing (with Annie Lennox and Melissa Etheridge) and the Christmas album Mother and Child (with Amy Grant and Martina McBride). "I wanted this to be an album of women with vocal distinction," says Houston, "that you could say their first name but you don't have to say their last." For Babyface, the key first name...
Professor of Physics Melissa Franklin, who was among those who confirmed the existence of the top quark, will give the primary address
Triumphant is the best word to describe the atmosphere at Agassiz Theater last Friday night. The new HRDC production of "West Side Story" (directed by Scott Brown, produced by Melissa Swift) takes on the full challenge of the musical--the singing, dancing, scatting, even the blindingly bright costumes--and pulls it off with style. The make-or-break moment comes right at the beginning, when the Jets, snapping in rhythm and looking cool, break into that first pirouette. Not only is it surprisingly graceful, but the six buddy-boys do it with such infectious high spirits that the audience...