Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Diana Trask, 23, carrot-topped Australian singer who came up from Down Under to sing along with Mitch, and Thomas Ewen, 36, Aussie auto salesman: their second child, second son; in Melbourne...
...characters, for their performances range from passable to very good. Ellery Akers plays Helen as an empty-headed Fanny Hill, rather than a regal queen whose face launches a thousand ships, and plays her well. David Evett's Menelaus is properly unctuous and opportunistic. And Michael Nach's frenetic sing-song servility as a Phyrigian slave introduces the comic tone which diminishes the tragedy of Orestes...
Alas, could not the Radcliffe Choral Society scare up a healthier sounding soprano section? Not one strong voice was to be heard among the sopranos. It was impossible to decide whether they should sing louder, so they could be heard properly, or softer, so their wrong notes would disappear. One reason the modern pieces on the program sounded better was that their sopranos parts were not as difficult...
Such the career, such the accomplishments, of the leader whom both Moscow and Peking fervently claim as their own, and of whom Russian schoolchildren sing...
Stealing the show is Andy Teuber, who hams up Dick Deadeye into a major part. Teuber can't sing, but he hisses his way through a superb rendition of "The Merry Maiden and the Tar" with the Captain (Bruce Renshaw). Teuber's versatility is remarkable; the pathetic figure he makes of Deadeye stands far above the usual stock villain...