Word: performances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...road to it was not easy. Sonny wrote the song that became their first record-Baby Don't Go-for her alone. "But she was too frightened to perform by herself, so I did the harmony just to be with her." Baby was a modest hit. In 1965 he wrote the softly rocking I Got You Babe, which turned out to be an immodest hit-some 4 million copies sold-and Sonny and Cher found themselves playing the big rock concerts. It looked as if the mansion was within reach...
Both Reinking and Grey perform feats of theatrical valor, but their talents are wasted. Grey is given only one dance, which he executes with goat-footed guile, while Reinking courses across the stage like a thoroughbred in the stretch. The music races toward oblivion rather than anyone's ears. Rouben Ter-Arutunian's majestic scenery features a columned, rotunda-like set with a cascade of steps. This forces Onna White to choreograph dances in which the chorus troops trippingly, and repeatedly, up and down...
...talent-depletion allowance for actors and actresses who linger too long in films. In any event, the stage makes different demands, and in the present instance Ullmann is simply not up to them. This is not entirely her fault. Her marvelously expressive face and luminous blue eyes perform exquisite miracles in camera closeups. In the vast spaces of Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater these precious attributes, and their power to move, are lost...
Kathy Manning '78 and Diane Nabstoff '78 said the as-yet-unnamed 12-women group will perform popular songs, show tunes, and possibly '40s music for both Harvard-Radcliffe and outside audiences...
Manning said the Krokodiloes provided the inspiration for the group's founding. "We went to see the Kroks perform and they were very good, but they also seemed to really enjoy singing," she said. "It's so different from any of the chairs around here...