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...extremely good. They help make more than usually bearable the Pudding Show plot, which--no matter where or when it is set--always seems to come out the same: wicked, chesty baritone schemes to murder or domineer others as air-head, goldilocks daughter falls in love with dim-wit tenor. Serfs Up!'s Monty-Python-and-the-Holy-Grail setting--with dozens of "thou's" thrown in--provides plenty of comic soil for puns to take root in; but it doesn't materially affect the stock Pudding plot--even if there is a peasant revolution, nasal lords and ladies, smelly...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

...makeup and ride the bus on top of everything else." A measure of flexibility in casting is required: Galbraith sings the baritone role of Marcello in La Bohème, as well as the bass role of Dandini in Cinderella. In one week on the latest tour Tenor Carroll Freeman helped out with hair and makeup and sang two lines offstage in Bohème in Abilene, Texas, on Tuesday, and assumed the leading role of Rodolfo on Thursday, when the bus reached Lawton, Okla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Have Arias, Will Travel | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...their weaker numbers live, comes across childish and definitely unfunny on the record. There are exceptions, particularly Grant Bue's gutsy baritone solo on "What's Your Name?," and the last song on the album, a perfectly paced "Serenade in Blue," with an unusual and pleasing solo by tenor Steve Zelinger...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: 'Muffy, A Song For Us' | 2/14/1981 | See Source »

...magazine so bedazzled by its own tradition-repeating every February its original cover of a dandy, Eustace Tilley, eyeing a butterfly through a monocle-The New Yorker has changed a lot. There have been two New Yorkers. The original reflected its founding genius, Harold Ross. ("Its general tenor will be one of gaiety, wit and satire," the prospectus said. "It will hate bunk," and would not be "edited for the old lady in Dubuque.") Its clever, brittle style survived the Depression but seemed frivolously out of sync when World War II began. So, war coverage was introduced, culminating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Trouble in Paradise. Yes, Trouble | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

Offensively, the Crimson was unstoppable, finally meshing all its varied skills to chalk up 90 points for the first time since the December 1 MIT game. Dixon's assist to forward Joe Carrabino with 6:48 to play illustrates well the tenor of the contest...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Hoopsters Whip Manhattan; Offense Shines in 90-80 Win | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

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