Word: nymph
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...replete with allegory. He refers to the poetry of his time -- Baudelaire, Mallarme -- with the same sense of possession and community that Renaissance painters like Lotto, Giorgione or Titian did to Ovid's Metamorphoses. As the figures in Venetian Renaissance pastorals tend to be generic rather than specific -- "a nymph" rather than Egeria or Daphne, "a warrior" rather than Alexander -- so are Matisse's scenes of Hesiodic primitive life. We will never know what mythological event the standing nude in Le Luxe (II), 1907-08?, with a crouching woman drying her feet, represents: Matisse didn't know himself...
...irredeemably tacky. The meticulous daily body inspection that is the most effective preventive is now a normal routine, like flossing teeth. What you are looking for is the nymphal stage of an arachnid (not an insect) that is louse-size only as an adult and that as a nymph has been compared to a dark freckle. Where you are looking is behind the knees, in pubic and scalp hair, under watchbands, in armpits. Yes, you need a partner for this, and perhaps, if you are no longer 25, a stiff drink...
Carleton, Siedlecki and music director Keith Kessler deserve credit for undertaking such an ambitious project. But the production is uninspired, and allows the emcees to upstage even Cole Porter himself. Despite some good individual performances, Nymph Errant goes astray...
While some students are trying to revive their grades for this semester, a group of thespians is trying to mount a stage revival of Cole Porter's obscure 57 year-old musical, Nymph Errant...
Because the musical had not been fully staged since 1933, Nymph Errant's music had to be rescored, and its script updated for a '90s audience...