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...Show-stealer status was unequivocally won, however, by the person-eating plant Audrey II. The Currier House Musical Society scored a coup by somehow managing to rent a set of awesome-looking puppets from a New York supplier (sources tell me that only five groups of such puppets exist), and made splendid use of them onstage. As the play progressed and scenes changed, Audrey II grew larger and larger, finally ending up the size of a small Volkswagen, equipped with fangs and a mouth full of purple feathers. The puppeteering was fabulous: Sarah D. Ronis...
...wasn’t the first time Klimkiewicz and Lentz have gotten crossed up trying to cut down a base stealer. In the Crimson’s home opener against Rhode Island, Lentz’s throw bounced off Klimkiewicz’s glove and into left field, allowing the runner to score what became the winning...
...scene-stealer is Hoffman, who follows up on his fine work in Happiness and Boogie Nights. With his undulating voice and quick reversals of emotion, he nicely portrays Rusty's painful limbo between lonely man and gaudy transvestite. Reading in between his frequently trite lines, Hoffman exposes Rusty's inner vulnerability. De Niro, too, raises his Walt above mere caricature. His subtle expressions reveal the pain of an independent man losing his mobility while his cautious moves towards Rusty make the burgeoning friendship relatively believable...
...What to Look For: Director Christian Roulleau is a notorious scene-stealer--as an actor, that is. After stellar performances in last year's City of Angels and the Hasty Pudding musical (he stole the show playing a man, no less!), he finds himself in the director's chair, helming a play driven by its actor interpretation. Reckless, Roulleau claims, stands out among the fall clutter because "the actors we have chosen all possess a keen sense of the fine line between the comic and the tragic-- a central element of this play." One of these talented actors is Julie...
...real show-stealer was the Kennedys (Pete Kennedy and his wife Maura Boudreau), who had the final performance on the Showcase Stage. So Pete had bad hair--still, when he lifted up his old guitar to thump, tweak and coax out crowd-rousing guitar solos that flew from Spanish-style romances to jazzy Broadway show tunes, you forgot all about it. The captivating backgrounds of their songs were impressive as well: they wove classics like Faure's "Pavane" and Bach's Jesu, "Joy of Man's Desiring" into songs inspired by remote sources such as Greek myth...