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Pier Carlo Talenti II '90, who plays Che, the story's narrator, had a difficult time separating his character from the music that the character sings. Talenti says that he also worked on exploring the nature of the relationship between Che and Eva. "I don't remember the character being as complex as he is for me now," Talenti says...
...course, there are complications. Mainly, Anthony (Pier Carlo Talenti), Sweeney's sailor friend, and the now-grown Joanna (Ginna Carter) have fallen in love with each other. But Turpin, responding to his own semiincestuous feelings for Joanna, decides to marry her himself and shut her away from the outside world...
...Stephen Sondheim's often dissonant, virtually non-stop score, is hard enough to sing, but Music Director David Gregg increases his singers' burden by backing them with only a piano and a synthesizer. Fortunately, the actors and the large chorus are up to the task, though Talenti and Carter occasionally fall flat on Sondheim's melodically meandering ballads...
...clear strength of the production is its excellent ensemble acting, and a few scenes are especially energized by individual performances. At the play's start, Pier Carlo Talenti creates a despicable, but hardly cartoonish, disciplinarian dad. And in the more leisurely paced second act, Eric Oleson is stirring as a father far out of touch with his daughter's "very complicated" generation...
...tragedy grows from the interaction of a triangle of characters. Actually, since fate rules entirely over these people's lives, leaving then no real free will, they are less characters than social types, as their names reveal. A young man, simply called the Groom (Pier Carlo Talenti), is engaged to a young woman, the Bride (Kristen Gasser). The Bride was engaged years ago to Leonardo (Daniel Zelman), but they quarreled and broke the engagement, and Leonardo married her cousin, the Wife (Allison Brody...