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Near the end of her 20-min. mad scene, Miss Havisham cries out, "I am tired!" There is a derisive titter from the audience. They have sympathy for Soprano Rita Shane, who plays Miss Havisham. She has flung her voice valiantly through trills, runs, arpeggios, and sung paragraph upon paragraph of words that dwarf the great mad scene in Lucia di Lammermoor. But the audience is tired too, because this kind of listening, when most of the words are unintelligible, is also hard work...
...Cale, Shane Champagne--The Paradise...
Morningside Heights has been in mourning all week over the sudden and inexplicable demise of the Lions. Columbia had its "big four" of Ricky Free, Juan Mitchell, Shane Cotner, and all-time assist leader Alton Byrd returning for the third year in a row. They had played exhilarating ball last year on their way to winning 13 of their last 15 games. The league race came down to a harem scarem finish with the Lions defeating Penn on the last weekend of the season and then losing to Princeton the next night to finish a game behind the Quakers...
Fame took its time, but when it finally arrived it compensated for past neglect. Orton made his breakthrough in 1964 with Entertaining Mr. Shane. Like all of Orton's comedies, it teased polite British hypocrisy, and even audiences of the '60s were shocked by his placement of outrageous behavior in a conventional setting. Loot followed in 1966, and What the Butler Saw posthumously in 1969. Success liberated Orton's talent, and in the months before he was killed, his prodigious mind was bursting with what Lahr calls "gorgeous, wicked fun." What Orton might have accomplished remains...
...theory of reincarnation and on karma as a sort of Newton's Third Law of the spirit ("Whatever goes around, comes around"). Willie is "irresistible to women," says a female member of his entourage, "because he's so sensitive along with being so masculine-like Shane." Willie acknowledges that people find his calm or silent phases "mysterious." He pauses and smiles. " 'Course they don't know I'm completely ripped...