Word: tessa
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...times this silliness comes out as slightly effeminate camp--manly gondolieri do not typically bat their eyelashes when they're being serenaded by a lovely contadine. The two lead "lovely contadine" in this production are both well-chosen for their roles. Cary Rosko sings the part of Tessa (Giuseppe's wife) loudly and down-right charmingly, although she could stand to be a little more silly (this is Gilbert and Sullivan, after all), like her compatriot Julie Quenlan, a graduate student at the New England Conservatory who is delightfully over-the-top as the giggly and giddy wife of Marco...
...main reason that The Gondoliers picks up is the arrival on the scene of Jill Weitzner as Tessa and Tori Jueds as Gianetta, the two Italian women who get engaged (quite randomly) to two gondolier brothers, Marco and Giuseppe, at the beginning of the show. Both show more spirit than the rest of the cast combined and have lovely voices to match. Given the lackluster direction they have to cope with, the performance of the two women is particularly remarkable...
This is especially evident in Scheiner's direction which is not so much inept as it is unimaginative and rote, sort of the directorial equivalent of painting by numbers. Many bad cliches are used in this production--from the overture pantomime of Tessa and Gianetta (five minutes watching the two girls place flowers in baskets oh so carefully) to the set staging of the chorus. When Casilda is holding a rose during a bittersweet love song, you know she will drop it at the end. She does. The evening is full of things like that too depressing to recount here...
...sorely afflicted or, like the ferryman, no-accounts who come to stud and go off to do something else. In 1910 the Birches move from Pasquotank to Raleigh, where matriarch Charlie Kate raises her daughter and granddaughter, practices medicine and becomes a Wake County legend: "Remember when she got Tessa Jerrod's arm out of the wringer? . . . Buttercup Spivey's dropped kidneys rose. Malcolm Taylor stopped wanting to scratch his missing leg. Everybody saw the miracles all around...
...classic overachiever with plenty of ambition and the kind of bottomless stamina that successful politicians often have. Nick, observes Irish Senator David Norris, has an incisive mind but appreciates "good food and good grog and enjoying life at an easier pace." The Robinsons guard the privacy of their children, Tessa, 19, William, 18, and Aubrey, 11. When Robinson visited Belfast in February, security was tight, but the word leaked to the press. Aubrey missed his customary perfect score in current events because, alone of his class, he did not know his mother's travel plans...