Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael Bruno of Cincinnati is one heart-disease patient who has benefited from drug therapy. A 55-year-old former printing-plant foreman, Michael and his brother Daniel, 58, a retired barber in Canonsburg, Pa., have a genetic disorder that results in very high levels of LDL and low levels of HDL. Daniel has suffered a heart attack, and both brothers have had bypass surgery. Now the Brunos are on low-saturated-fat diets and are taking lovastatin. In addition, Michael is taking gemfibrozil. Since the brothers started their programs, Michael's total cholesterol has fallen from...
...government to let residents take control. The mayor eventually agreed, and in January 1982 Gray's tenant management corporation began collecting rents, making repairs and running things for itself. What the corporation got was a run-down facility with bursting pipes, flooding basements and no one trained in physical-plant management. "It was crisis that brought us together," Gray says. Welfare mothers learned plumbing skills, children were pressed into clean-up patrols. The residents thrived, and Gray became a national spokeswoman for the movement...
...addition to the story of the savage plant's growth, the developing romance between Seymour and Audrey provides an intriguing plot line. Rocca and Ergener are well cast, and they are sensitive to the emotional changes their roles require. In a powerful "Suddenly, Seymour," they acknowledge their attraction to one another, and both give laudable vocal performances. They even remain completely in character during the song, avoiding the temptation to drop their Bowery accents as the music swells...
...only is most of Little Shop's acting great, the set and the production are noteworthy, too. Audrey II, which grows throughout the show and acheives a character of its own, is well built. Emmons Collings manipulates it believably, and Jonathan Lisco's voice suits the plant's character. The production staff deserves particular praise here for a difficult job well done...
...band's performance also varies in quality and could be tighter. This is particularly noticeable in some of the Audrey II songs, where the plant's vocals come through the speaker system, other cast members' vocals come from the stage and the band's music comes from the pit. Somewhere, the rhythm is out of sync. Fortunately, the off rhythms never diverge far enough to destroy any of the numbers. Generally, the sound effects and the music add effectively to the emotional impact of the script...