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...final story, "Passionella, concerns Ella, played by Barbara Fazio, a chimney sweep who aspires to movie stardom. Her wish is granted by that irrepressible snake, and she finds her Prince Charming, a curious sequined admixture of Presley, James Dean and Jagger played by Michael Blake. "Passionella" is the most entertaining skit of the three. It is energetic and funny but, unfortunately, like the other skits, it is performed sloppily. Costume changes are made too hastily, sounds are emitted from the orchestra which have nothing to do with what is happening on stage, and the choreography is slipshod. Perhaps the plays...
Foolish Pleasure was more than normal in that one, tying Bold Ruler's longstanding record time of 1:48 4/5 for the nine furlongs. Just as important, however, was the Duck's vault into stardom, as he was just a head behind when the two went under the finish wire...
...never thought of myself as a comedian," says Art of the years he spent making a household name for himself as the good-natured humbler Ed Norton. He tried hard to avoid being typed, and increasingly, work on Broadway came his way, culminating in stardom in The Odd Couple...
Sills came to the Met secure in her stardom. For Diaz's career, the principal male role in Siege means something completely different. Ten years younger than Sills, he has been at the Met for 12 and yet his greatest role to date--that of Count Cenci in Ginastera's Beatrix Cenci--didn't take place at the Met: Beatrix Cenci opened the Kennedy Center in 1972 and ran for two years at the New York City Opera. The role of Maometto, which he sang at La Scala with Sills in 1969 for his own debut there, is another crucial...
Anticipation proves to have been the best part of Liv Ullmann's Nora. She is giving a middling performance in a self-indulgent vanity production. Stardom is a powerful narcotic which, like pride, has frequently preceded a fall...