Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Messac and Robert La Fosse, burnished their skills and made them look fresh. This 28-minute ballet contains the role that Gregory has waited a career for, showing her matchless turns and balances and presenting her very simply as herself: a vibrant, modern virtuoso instead of the fairy-tale queen she has very nearly frozen into...
DIED. Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, 89, legendary red-haired singer, entertainer and nightclub owner better known to generations of café society on two continents as Bricktop; in New York City. Born in West Virginia to a black father and a mother who was part Irish, part black, freckle-faced Bricktop began her career in Harlem, then moved to Paris. Cole Porter wrote Miss Otis Regrets for her. John Steinbeck sent a taxiful of roses to apologize for getting drunk in her place. Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Duke of Windsor were regular visitors to her ultrachic Place...
...Queen Elizabeth High School in Edmonton, he led his team in scoring and won the MVP award in his senior year. His impressive high school play caused him to be sought after by Harvard, Princeton and Yale...
Jungle Belles follows the long Theatricals tradition of farce, humorous melodrama, and painful puns. It is set in the 1480s in a jungle where Amazon "women" live under the benevolent rule of Queen Foraday. Their manless solitude is interrupted by the arrival of the Conquistadores, led by Captain Walter Wallcarpeting and the priest Missionary Position. A battle of the sexes ensues, further complicated by the romance of the Queen's daughter, Kitty Litter, and the Captain's son. Jim Panzee, not to mention the songs, dances, and infamous chorus line. The requisite happy ending is accomplished with the help...
...character has been hurt by men; she's power-crazed, ruthless, and sublimates her need for men," comments Uzal S.H. Taylor '86, who plays Queen Foraday, "It's hard to be convincing playing this woman...