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After the rocky start, all the players turn in topnotch performances, with Lisa Beach standing out, intensifying her role with each word. After throwing away her opening lines like most of her cohorts, Beach ends up carrying much of the comedy and dialogue later in the play. Victoria Allan, Diana Gamser and Jim Smith have their roles down perfectly, they don't seem to be acting. The play develops occasional snags with some dead lines from Hoyt and Hall, as well as some zingers that miss. However, Hoyt and Hall center the focus of the play effectively, in spite...
...Werner) Michael Blumenthal, 50, fits the Carter specifications for Cabinet officers with almost ball-bearing precision. He is a topnotch businessman with a concern for social causes. He is a Democrat but not a big spender. He favors some national economic planning but not the amount called for by the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment bill. He is praised by labor leaders and businessmen alike. Says Douglas Fraser, a vice president of the United Auto Workers: "He is a very enlightened industrialist. His social values are solid, and he practices them...
Hancock is a complex pianist; a pioneer in electric piano who earned his reputation on the acoustical ivories. He is topnotch on both, but I have always preferred his soft Maiden Voyage stuff to his more recent-jazz synthesis. But I'm in the minority on this point...
Coleman, a black who is regarded as a topnotch Cabinet member and no pushover for the transportation industry, sensed a racial slur in Nader's remarks. Angrily, he termed them "bigoted." He later apologized. Nader did not, and even the Washington Post, a longtime fan, headlined its editorial WINDBAGS AND AIRBAGS...
...with that great American institution, the musical-A Chorus Line notwithstanding. That is what makes this cabaret selection of Leonard Bernstein's theater songs - or rather those tossed out of such shows as Candide, On the Town, Wonderful Town and West Side Story - a bittersweet delight. Less than topnotch though they are, the songs brim with confidence and fun. So does the patter, which harks back to the days when sophistication meant wryness and a wise crack was communication. The cast communicates by singing and dancing, and at least two of them - Patricia Elliott and Janie Sell - should immediately...