Word: roles
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Just as the moral center of Hugo's Les Miserables is Valjean, so the driving force of the stage show is Colm Wilkinson. An Irish singer largely untrained as an actor until he originated the role in London, Wilkinson, 43, has a superb pop-rock voice, whether in the assertive Who Am I or the wistful Bring Him Home. Unexpectedly, he encompasses the outsize moral stature of Valjean, making believable both his general saintliness and his outbursts of animal ferocity. Only one other member of the original cast is in the U.S. company: Frances Ruffelle, who as a tomboyish adolescent...
Fortunately too, Danny Glover plays the Cosby role: Veteran Cop Roger Murtaugh, a solid professional with a patient wife and numerous lively progeny. Glover brings a weary gravity -- no cute stuff permitted -- to his relationship with his flock and with his new partner. The latter may have a death wish, but Murtaugh has a strong life wish, and the patience to drip it slowly into Riggs' sensibility...
Rudenstein will investigate the administration's role in the affair, as well as the effectiveness of the university's current policy on this issue, The Daily Princetonian reported...
...sexual abuse case has brought students to question the role of Cornell's Greek system in campus life and has sparked new awareness "on the whole issue of sexual abuse," said Sara-Ellen Amster, a reporter for The Cornell Daily...
...That's not to say that there isn't a role for MGH. I have suggested that that would be a good site for a major parking facility," he said...