Word: soloiste
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Robin Williams is a movie misfit. As the decade's reigning comic soloist, master of the improvised trip through his own weird inner space, he generally arrives onscreen bearing the burden of our heightened hopes for a divine madness. Up to now, his genius has not fit any known film format. Narrative obligations and the implicit demand that leading characters be sane, likable and consistent have always constrained...
...Nobuddy understends dis." The man in the Honda commercial is talking about a parking gear, but he might just as well be analyzing his own career. After two decades of anonymity, Comedian Jackie Mason is lighting up Broadway. Next month he will celebrate a year as the stand-up soloist of The World According...
When Shere was 14, she became frustrated with her grandparents and joined an aunt and uncle in Daytona Beach, Fla. An intelligent and resilient child with a flair for music, she was a piano soloist at her baccalaureate ceremony at Daytona Beach's Seabreeze High School in 1960. With money supplied by her grandfather, she attended the University of Florida, where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in history with honors...
...with any good musical comedy, the dancing is an integral part of the show's success. choreographer Lesley Blumenthal, who has worked on earlier Harvard hits like Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, has done it again. Blumenthal displays considerable talents as a soloist, but the group dance numbers are where the production really shines. Tolins and his crew have made large production numbers possible by moving the stage to the side of the JCR, and the well-trained cast keeps the routines controlled and very lively...
...Paul Brusiloff '86 and the Cambridge-based, alumni-dominated vocal group Centerpiece. Saxophonist Don Braden '85-'88 interrupted his studies to tour with Wynton Marsalis and may never return to Harvard for a degree. He did, however, return to support Jazz For Life, playing both as featured soloist and as sideman...