Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Theatre is calling the work an "opera" of sorts, a somewhat misleading description. While the soundtrack is often remarkably detailed and well-orches-trated, it by no means approaches melody or beauty, concepts that are foreign to the play and its precursors. Every line of dialogue, every creak, stomp, shout and ominous musical note is pre-recorded and meticulously planned. The actors mouth their lines as the words resonate throughout the theater, creating a mood that reinforces the impact of the show's other-worldly, puppet-like realm...
While Shuman sang with a rather pinched upper register and seemed to shout rather than sing--at times reminiscent of Eddie Vedder--he gave a thoughtful and well-acted performance. Corona had a lovely mid-range vibrato, along with some excellent breath control in tricky solos. However, Benaim, a splendid baritone who made another Dunster appearance as a soloist in the December "Messiah," stole the show with his gorgeous interpretation of the sinister machinations of four separate villains. He hammed it up, all the while supporting a richly textured, well-trained voice...
...never truly shopped, but the first week of classes this year seemed like more of a zoo than ever before. One Sever classroom filled to capacity 10 minutes before lecture and the line of prospective students snaked down the hall. A student standing in the doorway began to shout a repetition of what the professor was saying to the students who were standing outside, so that those of us who had the privilege of being seated in the back of the classroom got to hear the class in echo form. At the same time, the crowd was so big that...
When it comes to limits that society can reasonably place on free speech, the best known statement by the Supreme Court is from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who said that nobody has the right to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater. More to the point is that nobody in a theater has a right to talk through the movie--particularly if it's a guy sitting right behind you whose voice could be used to torture political prisoners in South America and who can't stop talking about how much the actress playing the matrimonial lawyer resembles his Cousin Edna...
...unleashed a tremendous shout. The moose instantly collapsed onto the ground, a meter from...