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Hard for an actor to cop an Oscar -- or earn a sheaf of rave reviews -- when an audience's first and lasting response to his appearance is "Ooooh, isn't he cute?" His face is a posh prison, his smile a winsome rictus. Because everyone wants to mother him, or date him, or have him for a baby-sitter, nobody will let him grow up. He must remain harmless, asexual, a teen-dream Dorian Gray doll or risk losing the devotion of his millions of chaperones...
...OOOOH BABY. I ain't goin' nowhere!" C. E. Smith exclaims as Teresa Reese delivers the first deadly line of the Supremes' first million-seller. "Where Did Our Love Go?" It's the perfect response--one that sits in the back of our minds every time we hear Diana Ross utter "Baby, baby, baby don't leave me. Oooh, please don't leave me by myself." It's also one of the best moments in a top-notch local show. Dancin' in the Street! is a snazzy, thoroughly enjoyable Motown revival. And if C. E. Smith and the other seven...
...peak, discussing the climb ahead. He recalled, "Suddenly there was a crashing sound and a thunderous roar behind us. It was as if one side of the mountain were coming down on us, an 800-ft. wall with thousands of blocks of ice tumbling down. Everybody was going 'Ooooh,' as if they were watching a Fourth 2 of July display. All I could think about was running...
Here come the comments: "Ooooh, aaaaaah THE SPACEMAN. Did he say anything weird--Is he really wigged out--Is Don Zimmer really a gerbil--Why didn't he pitch the last half of the season--Can I get some of the stuff he smokes so I can be like...
...basement, ceilinged by exposed pipes that cast members have garnished with crepe paper. The festive one-for-all atmosphere heightened in intensity; in a few hours the only remnant of two months work would be a stack of slides the producer arranges in a small, plastic carousel. "AAAaaah, Ooooh, la-la-la-la-la-ne-ne-ne-t-t-t-;" gregarious gobs gather in garious groups." The cast hopped and stomped, up and down, practicing diction and singing scales, up and down. The man who paced was Kenneth LaZebnik, director-cum-ringmaster and coach now warming (or frenzying...