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...have two sets of interests," says Hughes Hallett, who was raised in England. "When I was in high school, I was sent to a rather artistic girls' school. I wanted to do physics and chemistry because I didn't sing...
Torrence also argued that there was no place to house Yale's female singers, except with the Radcliffe Choral Society. He didn't want to be obligated to let the Choral Society sing, he said, and "we would rather sing alone than sing with the Radcliffe Choral Society...
...course, this being the seventies, Robert may be single, but he's never alone for long. He has his pick of women, though none seem to be "The One." In one particularly amusing scene, he beds a pixellated stewardress named April (Lizzy Marlantes), while his married female friends sing "Poor Baby," a mournful hymn about the torments of bachleorhood. As "the Wives" sing, the happily uncommitted couple rocks the night away in Robert's electric-blue, satin water bed. (Whether it was actually a waterbed is debatable, but it should have been...
...human emotion without weighing the audience down with sentimentality or artistic pretensions. Sondheim and Furth add irony, a much-needed quality in a musical, without being too self-consicous about it. Even their "types" (crusty matron, dim-but-nubile stewrdess), manage to escape cliche. And when the couples sing "The Little Things You Do Together," with barely-hidden hostility, they articulate the uncanny need for men and women to stay together, no matter how ridiculously miserable they might...
Inevitably, this "West Side Story" is less at ease in its quieter moments, when the singing and the orchestra are more exposed. As the film of the musical shows, it is difficult for anyone to get through molasses like "There's a Place for Us" and make it interesting. Both Maria (Marisa Chandler) and Tony (Adam Wolfsdorf) have good voices and sing with confidence, but they generally lack the power to carry such a heavy musical weight; the pace slackens in their solos and duets. There is an added tension in their different singing styles. Chandler's delicate, operatic tone...