Word: sheldon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rage of Angels, Sheldon...
...vocally demanding role of the minstrel Elsie, Lisa Sheldon is convincing. Though polished and powerful, her soprano unfortunately lapses occasionally into an operatic ardor and intensity out of place in a light opera at the tiny Agassiz Theater. Her enunciation is murky, at times, with the result that she swallows many of Gilbert's swifter lyrics. Still, her opening duet with Jack Point "I Have a Song to Sing O" is the operetta's high point: sorrowful, simple, and affecting...
...Neill also has the disconcerting habit of changing facial expression flamboyantly at every line he hears, particularly noticeable in O'Neill's many scenes with the exemplary Zabusky. The same heavyhandedness unhappily characterizes O'Neill's singing. His voice is rich and resonant but, like Sheldon's, somewhat stentorian under the circumstances...
PHILADELPHIA--F. Sheldon Hackney, newly selected president of the University of Pennsylvania, probably will live on campus in Eisenlohr Hall, a 25-room mansion now being used as alumni center...
...Rage of Angels, Sheldon...