Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says the announcer in the 30-sec. rock video, amid flashing lights and screaming crowds. Moments later the viewer sees what all the cheering is about. It is not for Prince, the rock star, but Prince, the tomato sauce, in concert smotheringly with Prince spaghetti. Lawyers for Prince, the singer, were grated. They sent a letter to Joseph Pellegrino, the Lowell, Mass., pasta company's president, complaining that the ad gave the impression that their client had endorsed Prince products. The lawyers asked the 73-year-old spaghetti maker to forthwith stop using the 26-year-old rock star...
Enter Gilda (Lesley Ann Warren), a singer probably more reminiscent of Vegas glitz than bittersweet ballads, who agrees to front Doc's first song...
Burke, on the other hand, has song with both campus, and Boston rock bands and says that she considers herself a "pop-ballad" singer. In addition, she writes songs, which, she says, are "mostly about love, but not on the idyllic or positive side...
Burke says that she looks forward to "Just Us and Music Too" not just as an opportunity to perform but also a chance to sing songs recorded by Martha Davis, lead singer for the Motels. "She's really intense," says Burke "but not in that Bette Middler screamy type of way. She doesn't put on a floor show...
...intermission which though not written into the original script could have ben interpolated here because though the cast sustained their momentum for a solid two hours, the audience could have used a brief respite. The orchestra seems slightly underrehearsed, but fortunately was soft enough to enable every singer to be heard clearly. All in all Candide is truly an ensemble performance, featuring an excellent chorts which shows the cruelty of this fallen world in its numerous appearances as citizen of various towns. Though Candide itself presents a rather sober vision of humanity this production represents the best of Harvard theater...