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...Midsummer Night's Dream, Hedda Gabler at Canterbury, and replaced an ailing Lotte Lenya in a production of the Weill-Brecht The Seven Deadly Sins in Edinburgh. Currently she is starring in a London revival of Show Boat, where her breathy, pulsating Bill is a showboat-stopper. Her musically adventurous nature has also led her to give lieder recitals, try some of Dankworth's offbeat settings of Shakespeare Sonnets and Bach inventions, and sing the role of Eve in Arena, a futuristic opera by Britain's George Newson, at a 1971 London Prom concert under Pierre Boulez...
...desk. The Emerson table radio is tuned to WGR, Buffalo, as the announcer asks you to join him in "the small house halfway up in the next block" and the voice of Vic comes through the speaker greeting his son Rush: "Hi de hi, ho de ho, ink stopper...
Brayton was never in trouble during his eight shut-out innings, and he didn't allow any Terrier runner to get past second base. Brayton is now 4-0, and he has turned into the type of stopper which Harvard had in Bill Kelley last year...
There are three "show-stoppers" in Follies, On the album one of them has been left more or less intact (only the dance music has been cut), and the other two have been butchered. "Who's That Woman?" sounds like it was written to stop the show-even without the spectacular dance that accompanies it on stage. But the first "show-stopper" is a medley of three "follies" routines, each performed with geriatric gusto by old time performers Marcie Stringer, Charles Welch, Fifi d'Orsay and Ethel Shutta, who do their numbers separately (the first two as a duet...
...third "show-stopper" is Alexis Smith's spectacular "Story Of Lucy And Jessie" which is a honky-tonk dance number written in the style of Cole Porter. The lyric (the cleverest in the show if not the best) is all there, but that is all that is there. As soon as Miss Smith is finished with her tongue twisting the orchestra pulls up to an abrupt halt, leaving the listener panting for more...