Word: successful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What is your view concerning the numerous Chinese actors who have found success here in the United States...
...events unfold, the music gradually becomes more serious to match the severity of Hitler's increasingly powerful position. Musical director John Baxindine '00 does an admirable job as band leader, and his three fellow musicians, prominently displayed at center stage, perform even the most intricate pieces with style and success. Only four musicians? It is through its simplicity that Good is effective. A simple, logical rationalization--this is, according to the play, the premise underlying the rise of Hitler's national hysteria...
...grace, energy, charisma, and yes, polish. With a deep, musky voice exactly tailored to Reno, Metson pulls off "Let's Misbehave," "Anything Goes" and "Take Me Back to Manhattan" with a remarkable flair that is meticulously dynamic, right down to the position of her eyes. The key to her success is that she casts off the restraint that can ruin a show like this one and lets loose, filling her role with her own positive intensity. Together, Chazaro and Metson make "Let's Misbehave" (their duet) arguably the best number of the show...
...those things that everyone instinctively makes fun of without ever having experienced (like Titanic, Melanie Griffith, etc.) But it's an unfair judgment--the dancing is phenomenal. Skipping and clicking across the stage like gazelles, these performers are among the most talented in the world. Riverdance deserves its success. But I worry. See, the dancers can really only last 10-15 minutes at a time because the intensity and energy required for a particular number is excruciating. So the rest of the time is filler--often thuddingly, anachronistic, cliched, diluted filler. At one point, a blues singer launches into almost...
...adapting Nobel-prize winning author Edwin O'Connor's 1956 novel, The Last Hurrah, into a theatrical event. Speckled with scheming politicos, snooty aristocrats and down-to-earth Irish-American folk, O'Connor's novel, a sweeping panorama of '50s Boston political scene, seemed a perfect recipe for dramatic success, right? Wrong...