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TECHNOLOGY: Ken Baierlein (Manager); Nora Jupiter, Kevin Kelly, George Mendel, Peter K. Niceberg, Michael M. Sheehan, Lamarr Tsufura
presented by the Nora Theatre Company...
...Nora Theatre Company's production of Orphans, which premiered last week at the Union, managed to bring real dramatic tension to a building more often the site of food-fights than good theater. Featuring a small cast, a dynamic set and an unusual musical score by Pat Metheny, Orphans skilfully depicts the emotional turmoil of its three characters, slipping only occasionally into melodrama...
TECHNOLOGY: Ken Baierlein (Manager); Nora Jupiter, Kevin Kelly, George Mendel, Peter K. Niceberg, Michael M. Sheehan, Lamarr Tsufura...
That they do is largely a tribute to Daren Firestone and Nora Dicke, who play the unlikely protagonists who fall in love while working in a plant shop. Firestone is perfect as the nerdy nice guy Seymour who dreams of a life beyond Mr. Mushnik's plant shop. "I've given you sunshine, I've given you dirt/you've given me nothing but heartache and hurt," he sings plaintively to the strange plant "Audrey II" in his first number. Firestone has a good voice and is convincing in his later scenes of moral crisis...