Word: singings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strive for emotional honesty to compensate for a lack of maturity or finely-honed technique; Sleuth, however, is an exercise in style, and it demands a display of brazen theatrical exhibitionism, a roaring hamminess firmly entrenched in technical precision. The actors must savor Shaffer's dialogue, sputter and sing it in every conceivable register, deliver it with an awareness so heightened that the words become daggers. In the Leverett House production they do not; the dialogue is rattled off racehorse-style, reduced to snippy banter that makes Anthony Shaffer sound like a British Neil Simon...
Thursday, March 9: Recital: Sandra Stuart, soprano, and Gordon Pruett, barione, sing works of Monteverdi and Bach, 12:10 p.m., MIT Chapel, free...
...late '60s musical, with the large added bonus of a brilliant score by Stephen Sondheim. Company is the story of a single man among his married friends, and his shifting feelings about the value of marriage. Paris Barclay's crew is a bit uneven, but all the leads can sing, which is all that a musical really requires. A must for Sondheim freaks--and since there are so many of the, you'd better get your tickets in advance. Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday...
...Beginner's Luck, now playing at Reality Theatre in Boston, tonight through Saturday at 8. The play, based on the Biblical tale of power rivalry between King Saul and the shepherd boy David (of Goliath fame), suffers from occasional cloying sweetness and the overuse of improvisational techniques, such as sing-alongs and audience participation, but overall it is moving and provocative...
...Wellesley Widows, The Princeton Katyerjammers, Mount Holyoke V-8's, Tufts Beezelbubs sing from 8:30 to 11:00 p.m. at Schneider Mainstage...