Word: strutting
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...star Chita Rivera, a seven-time Tony nominee still dancing at 60, Kiss is her first Broadway show since Jerry's Girls in 1986. During that run, she broke her leg in a car accident and was told she might never again walk, let alone skitter, strut and tango eight times a week as a combination film- noir diva and emblem of death...
...animal odors. The grand, ethereal Cirque du Soleil is really primal theater -- an age-old blend of music and motion. The weirdly soothing, polylingual background score, which could be elevator music at a harmonious U.N., rolls out a verdant carpet of sound for all the pretty beasts to strut on. At every moment, in every corner of the Cirque world, stagecraft approaches genial witchcraft. It's an out-of-Broadway experience...
...Galahad Lasnight personifies the stereotype of foppish, self-inflated Harvard straight male. Intoxicated by himself and with his chinhigh in the air, Mr. Sneeringer achieves a remarkable jibe at the Old Boy Network His coxcombic and self invested flatness provide a nice backdrop for the men in heels to strut their stuff. It just goes to support some things I've always suspected: that men in heels tend to be far more interesting than men in boots, and that men in boots can be as plastic as men in heels. Frankly men in boots become quite dull after a while...
Neither Selig nor Robe handle the transition between plotlines smoothly. Selig is forced to beg and grovel to Robe and the emotional fireworks don't suit him well. His face is expressive but his delivery is awkward. As Susan, Robe resorts to clipped anunciation and a martinet's strut to connvey emotional distance. Despite Robe's best efforts. Susan remains an unplansible caricature of promiscuity and icy reserve. Robe has a much firmer grasp of Susan. Whining, shuffling, and grimacing, Susan amuses an undercurrent of threat...
...need not only to strut, to achieve, to get in, to get, but to be part of a community, to know what love is," Coles added