Word: trio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actual performance. Short bursts of orchestral music which punctuate the vocals are invariably marred by sloppy entrances and exits. The players are tentative on softer passages and overpowering on louder ones. The off-stage chorus, microphoned in, is almost always off-balance and off-sync, and the vocal "jazz trio" is dull and lifeless...
Director Craig Cochrane sets Yesterdays in an elegant, dimly lit nightclub--round tables with gardenia centerpieces surround a low stage flanked by a piano trio. The audience is seated on the 'set,' establishing the intimacy of an actual jazz performance. During the production, beverages and pretzels can be ordered, and chatting is (or seems to be) acceptable--the distinction between theater and cabaret is undermined...
...piano trio kicks in at the end of the first number and accompanies the rest of the show. Craig Hickman performs an animated "Embraceable You"--one of Holiday's most famous numbers--and then introduces Holiday herself, who is played by Ketanji Brown. The transition from student jazz concert to drama is innovative, but awkward. Brown, who affects Holiday's dialect in both her monologue and musical performance, is the only member of the cast/company to represent a historical character...
Throughout the production, admirable renditions of Holiday's most memorable works are interspersed with timely appearances by Holiday's character. The piano trio that accompanies the show, from the Berklee School of Music, is tight, driving and colorful (though naturally they do not capture the sound of Holiday's big bands...
After the 1988-89 Crimson team won a national championship, Harvard might have expected that the potential stars of the future would be beating down its door. But only the now-sophomore trio of bona fide skaters matriculated in the fall...