Word: quieter
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...same mark with her acting. In Exhale, she wisely works as part of an ensemble that includes Angela Bassett, Lela Rochon and Loretta Devine. Bassett has most of the showy scenes (in one, her character sets her adulterous husband's belongings on fire), while Houston's scenes are quieter, less demanding (an emotional phone call to her mother, a slow dance at a party). Says author McMillan: "She's going to be a really better actress when she starts seeing herself as an actress and not a singer who acts...
...Nicky of their place in paradise. The former, apparently unaware of Bugsy Siegel's fate, aspires to celebrity-mobster status; the latter ratchets up his murder rate to crime-spree levels; both fatally attract the attention of the law and their own godfathers back home, who naturally prefer quieter business methods...
Inevitably, this "West Side Story" is less at ease in its quieter moments, when the singing and the orchestra are more exposed. As the film of the musical shows, it is difficult for anyone to get through molasses like "There's a Place for Us" and make it interesting. Both Maria (Marisa Chandler) and Tony (Adam Wolfsdorf) have good voices and sing with confidence, but they generally lack the power to carry such a heavy musical weight; the pace slackens in their solos and duets. There is an added tension in their different singing styles. Chandler's delicate, operatic tone...
...requires more precision and conviction than most there is very little room for judging in the trills of the mambo and America," and this group, reinforced by angers from the New England Conservatory and the Berklee and Longy Schools, is equal to it the few lapses came in the quieter passages, where the filigree of strings sometimes faltered, especially at the end of the first act. Occasionally problems with the amplification system made some phrases inaudible while others were painfully loud, but this will be remedied we hope...
Torrance, who attended the rally, said he waspleased with the turnout but added that hisefforts are quieter than those of the protesters'organizers...