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...next Nadia Comaneci. At the Montreal Olympics in 1976, the 14-year-old Romanian gymnast revolutionized her sport by scoring the first-ever perfect 10.00 on the uneven bars, capturing hearts all over the world and launching an era of child gymnastics stars. Ponor, at 16, has superb balance and a rare clarity of artistic expression that recalls Comaneci. Whether she has Comaneci's effortless grace under pressure won't become clear until she competes in Athens, but Comaneci herself says Ponor has "everything it takes to be a champion." And Ponor leaves no doubt about her goal. "I have...
...also hammered into him by all those roles in which he essentially played the sensible master of ceremonies to a cast of more gifted or committed actors. This steadiness, combined with a voice suggesting unforced manliness and homespun wisdom, made him a welcome, authoritative TV figure and a superb politician...
...last cheers after the performers' curtain calls, as the orchestra plays a few final airs - the capper to a beautiful evening. Fisher is the one who has worked with the arrangers to locate the score (or to reimagine what it might have been), who has rehearsed his two dozen superb musicians (a larger number than in the pit of most Broadway shows) and who later supervises the transferring of some of the Encores! revivals to CD. About a third of the shows have been commemorated on disk, their vitality miraculously intact. Good, but not good enough - every Encores! show must...
Faculty and administrators alike laud Venky for his superb leadership of the DEAS expansion thus far. They say he has been instrumental in helping to attract a significant number of faculty members over the last five years. He estimates he has hired about 30 professors, between replacing retiring faculty and creating new positions...
...uses him as a subject for her research into the criminal mind - speak directly, and separately, to the audience, in that dreary minimalist mode of so many new plays. But Irish playwright Bryony Lavery breaks the formula by bringing the characters together for a few key confrontations, and the superb actors (Brian F. O?Byrne, Swoosie Kurtz and Laila Robbins) help keep our eyes transfixed on events almost too terrible to contemplate. The fact that this bleak and unsettling play transferred from off-Broadway to the land of Mamma Mia and The Lion King (where, even if it wins...