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...News even went so far as to say that Carolyn was full in figure and glowing, which columnists George Rush and Joanna Molloy interpret as possible signs of pregnancy...
...heir to the company financed the band's first record. For years Moloney, an accountant, and the others kept their day jobs; some dropped out. Of the original five, only Moloney and fiddler Martin Fay remain; the others are Conneff (percussion), Sean Keane (second fiddle), Matt Molloy (flute) and Derek Bell (harp and keyboards), whose dour banker's visage is uncapped onstage to reveal a wily mischiefmaker. "We keep the humor going," says Moloney. "I grew up in an atmosphere where music was about happiness and song." But the group's approach to their traditional airs is one of unawed...
...road show, but the sets and costumes are Broadway quality -- and so is the supporting cast. As the curmudgeonly Yonkers merchant Horace Vandergelder, Jay Garner is a heavyweight foil for Channing. Michael DeVries, as chief clerk Cornelius Hackl, and Florence Lacey, his vis-a-vis as milliner Irene Molloy, are an especially appealing pair of singing comedians...
...focuses his rage on his peasant wife, the devoted Nora (Dearbhla Molloy), whom he married out of either propriety or love--the audience is never certain--and whom he has resented ever after as the locus and symbol of his failure. Their feisty daughter Sara (Elizabeth Marvel) resents Melody for living in the past and clinging to a tradition that makes him a fool in America, swindled by the Yankees, abusive to Nora, and hated by his patrons for his outdated gentlemanly airs...
This is, however, beautifully counterbalanced by the perceptive performances of Elizabeth Marvel and Dearbhla Molloy. Nora never falters in her love for Melody, or in her suffering for having left the Catholic Church to accommodate their early transgression which resulted in marriage. To the extent that Nora is the moral fulcrum of the play, Molloy creates a steady, understated and endearing character through lines which otherwise could be considered preachy. The real fireworks of the play, however, come from Marvel's portrayal of Sara, who is the audience's heroine and a metaphor for the future voice of America...