Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third act in which Eliza makes her first appearance in genteel society, Mary Klug and Celeste McClain add to the laugh quota as the dresden-china gentlewoman Mrs. Eynsford-Hill and her would-be-fashionable daughter Clara, while Neil McGarry plays an appropriately pop-eyed Freddy, Eliza's fatuous suitor. This scene-Shavian social comedy at its greatest-is probably the best of the entire production, though McConnell mugs a little too hard as the half-finished creation...
Kane told the crowd about one associate he first met on campus when they were both dating the same girl. This former rival suitor later became instrumental in the expansion of Au Bon Pain into Cambridge, he said...
...specialty-paper salesman from Chicago, wants to stay married to the perceptive and unusually attractive Barbara while vigorously pursuing a dour and uncompliant Parisian named Josephine. Furious, Barbara refers to her straying mate as what could euphemistically be called the lowest part of the digestive system. Josephine calls her suitor a damned fool after he takes her young son to a park without permission. Unattended, little Leo wanders off and is stripped by older boys. Austin's humiliation is compounded by newspaper accounts alleging that he might be a child molester...
...production still provided many amusing moments. One number, "The Waltz," worked particularly well, telling the story of a woman (Megan Uebelacker) who wishes she didn't have to dance with a particular suitor (Evan Sicuranza). As the music plays and couples swirl around the dance floor, the man repeatedly steps on her toes, and she denies any pain and takes all the blame. Uebelacker's asides to the audience are funny, but eventually it becomes clear that she is stuck in a courtship ritual and simply unable to breach the laws of a too-polite so ciety...
...serious obstetrical complications in more than half the women over the age of 45." But if a woman accepts the risk, this medical advance could alter the emotional landscape. With her clock not ticking, a woman of a certain age will be less likely to size up a suitor as a potential father while he is still treating relationships as if they were disposable diapers. Gradually, it might even become fashionable for older women to marry younger...