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TOOMER is an avowed perfectionist, insisting on only doing those things she feels comfortable doing, those things she can shine in. "It can be a problem," she says. "It's often a disguise for fear. I won't try anything new because I have to get the old stuff perfect. I fear that certain music won't showcase me, and I won't look good...
Toomer, perfectionist that she is, knows why she performed so well: "It was a really fantastic part written for me. The songs matched my range, and it was a perfect arena for me to shine...
...Korot is in love with faces, and she gives each one a chance to shine. The dark, committed faces of Jerusalem -- so alike and yet so dissimilar, and each so convinced of its beliefs -- stand in stark contrast to the sunny, open, uncomplicated American visages of the third act. An American, the sculptor Richard Serra, says blithely, "Abraham Lincoln High School, 'High on the hilltop midst sand and sea' -- that's about as far as I trace Abraham." Coming as it does after two acts of religious zealotry, the comment expresses a contemporary, secular kind of cultural truth -- Who cares...
...Agassiz you will be rewarded with the entertaining performances of the several accomplished leads. But all the talent in the world doesn't quite redeem a production marked mostly by its slow pace and stale direction. The funnier moments of the Gilbert and Sullivan operates do shine through the dreariness but it is depressing to see such a fine cast wasted...
Morgan's Magic: Junior first baseman Dave Morgan from Needham, Mass. continues to shine at friendly Fenway...