Word: singings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rene's feelings of sexual inadequacy vanish when he hears Song sing the death scene from Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, a tale of love between an American navy officer and Japanese opera singer who kills herself after the officer abandons her. Here is what Rene has dreamt of his whole life: a beautiful woman who will submit to all his desires. Joseph Salonga played Song convincingly in a wig and ballet slippers, but could have projected better the seductive tone of his character's voice. I had difficulty making out some of his lines...
...role of Henry requires a dynamic actor willing to take risks, and David Skeist is certainly that. In a spellbinding performance, Skeist captures the anger and the pathos of his character, seemingly without effort. He spares no vocal or gestural expense and succeeds in making Henry's lengthy monologues sing vibrantly. By the end of the second act, Skeist has made us look past his absurdly childish costume (which makes him look vaguely like Big Bird in drag) and see nobility and brilliance in his character. (Skeist was also extremely ill during Henry's run, but he nonetheless gave...
...Well, my mom went to college with Skip Gates...no, wait, that was my dad. My mom's roommate dropped out freshman year to sing with Carole King. Her daughter went to high school with me. As did the senator's daughter. Which senator? All of them...
...last year. District 11 has a 10-year, $8 million contract with the soft-drink company that calls for the yearly consumption of 1.68 million bottles of Coke products. If a case contains 24 bottles, which answer is correct? A) District 11 met its goal, and its students will sing back-up to Aretha Franklin in a new ad campaign. B) District 11 is 960,000 bottles in the red. C) Students should drink lots more Coke...
...wordplays are magnificent; a sampling of memorable ones might include the description of Wintergreen as "the ruler of our Government/the one who taught what love meant' and the description of the First Baby as a "Dictator-tot." As Lisa Olmos notes in the program booklet, "Of Thee I Sing/ is a florid testament of Ira's skill at "letting the melody fit the rhyme...