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...This mood resonates throughout the show, particularly in Set Designer Tony Walton's scenic imagination. He inscribes the Cotton Club in neon across the night sky rather as Picasso painted with a flashlight in the dark. Through dark blue and white lighting, a flight of stairs becomes a piano keyboard to prance...
...pianist, Pressler cannot travel with his instrument and so is more at the mercy of circumstance. He must perform on whatever piano happens to be in the hall when he arrives: in the past, these have included an out-of-tune upright and a piano with no pedals. When not performing with the trio. Pressler goes home to Bloomington, Indiana, where he is a professor at Indiana University. He keeps an active schedule of engagements with such orchestras as the Cleveland, the Philadelphia, and the New York Philharmonic. He has also appeared with such ensembles as the Julliard...
...musters all of her commanding appeal as a brothel madam singing "I Never Do Anything Twice." Perched on a stool by the piano, a black lace shawl draped over her shoulders. Reed stretches out her legs, throws back her head and recounts escapades with kinky abbotts and other unusual clients, always returning to the admonishment that she never repeats her experiences. Her husky voice seeps into the darkness around the spotlight, reaching the back rows with its delicious bawdiness...
That new sophistication is the result of increased experience, full days spent on piano practice, a summer spent writing dozens of songs from which he formed his musical, "Leaders of Tomorrow," (performed at K-House this fall), and a great deal of study under music arranger and Pudding musical director Peter L. Mansfield '76. "I am greatly indebted to Peter. He has taught me a tremendous amount about harmonics and voicing...
...arranged two, written and directed one, and done miscellaneous work on several others. He is president of the K-House Drama society and has been since before he entered the House--"But you have to remember that there's not much competition for that slot here." He also plays piano for parties. "That's something I really enjoy. The other night, I was doing a party, and all of a sudden I started playing all these things that I don't know how to play. I mean, jazz--I don't know how to play jazz! But there...