Word: singed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opera was cast in December and began rehearsing in January. The casting process usually includes several stages of auditions, says Director Adam J. Fratto '90. "In the first round, they sing something prepared, and some roles get cast right there. Others we need to hear again. For instance when I heard Bill Beeman we knew he was the only one who could played the part of Falstaff," he says...
...quartet you have four people sing the same lines over and over. There is no dramatic impact," he says. "You [as the director] have to work with the scene in order to suspend the audience's disbelief that there are only four people on stage singing...
...shoppers had witnessed one of the critical tests in the first U.S. class $ conducted by Kanrisha Yosei Gakko, a renowned Japanese management training school. Known as a "hell camp" for salespeople and managers, the school requires students to sing a "sales crow" song -- so named because the singers are supposed to sound like cawing crows -- in a public place to break down their inhibitions. The curriculum includes memorizing rules of behavior, constant oral testing on classroom work, writing speeches and delivering them in stentorian tones, along with a 25-mile hike and other strenuous physical exercise...
...Baltimore, city of Edgar Allan Poe and H.L. Mencken, of Johnny Unitas and Brooks Robinson, of aluminum-siding salesmen and rampaging transvestites! How lucky thou art to have two sublimely eccentric moviemakers, Barry Levinson and John Waters, as native sons who sing your praises! Levinson set his two best movies, Diner and Tin Men, in the Baltimore of the late '50s and early '60s. Waters has made all eleven of his pictures, from the coprophagous comedy Pink Flamingos to the all-stinking Polyester (filmed in Odorama), in his hometown...
Advice from the sidelines. As the contest between Bush and Dole turned nasty, Mario Cuomo told Democratic National Chairman Paul Kirk: "Tell your candidates to go out on the stage and stand there holding hands and humming The Star-Spangled Banner. Hum it -- don't sing it, because then they would have to open their lips...