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...story is deliberately simplistic to showcase the music and the farce. Fredrik's son, Henrik (Ed Upton), has arrived home suddenly, hesitant to enter the monastery because of his love for his step-mother Anne (Catherine deLima). Anne is much younger than her husband, Fredrik (Colin Stokes), and wants to preserve her virginity. So Fredrik seeks satisfaction in his old romance, Desiree (Lacey Tucker), whose theater troupe is passing through town. The affair is not long without complications. Desiree's jealous lover Carl-Magnus (Daren Firestone), a moronic dragoon who loves to fight, shows up just as the two lovers...
Despite these setbacks, the charisma of the players carried the production through with verve. Catherine deLima, playing the spirited Rosalinda, dominated the production with her dynamic voice and smirking facial expressions. Particularly charming was the duet in which deLima seduces Edward Upton (Eisenstein, Rosalinda's husband) in disguise, wielding a Hungarian accent and faintly pouting demeanor to entrap him. Upton provided a good counter-weight to deLima's antics, playing the impish and persecuted husband with an infallible good nature. Although Upton's voice suffered under the daunting orchestra and paled in comparison to his buoyant coplayers, his cutesy acting...
...chemistry between the characters was especially explosive, and came off particularly well in the duet between Upton and David Collins (Dr. Falke) in Act I. Here Collins persuades Upton, with the utmost of alacrity, to attend prince Orlofsky's party. Collins enchants the audience, as well as Upton, with his crisp, charismatic antics atop the living room furniture. Collins maintains his devilish role of orchestrating his plot of revenge on Upton through the many twists and turns of the production, and the audience enjoys sharing his secret through...
...moment to moment, The Great Depression brims with striking images and insights. If it lacks the poetry of The Civil War or the narrative cohesiveness of Eyes on the Prize, the material seems fresher and has more complex echoes for our own era. The near-miss campaign of socialist Upton Sinclair for Governor of California in 1934, the subject of one full episode, is like an event from prehistoric times; it can't happen here anymore. Yet the account of Hollywood's slick media campaign to defeat him might have come from a 1993 campaign adviser's handbook. The newsreel...
...Sandra Graham and Rosa Parks Alternative Public School on 15 Upton Street, just west of Central Square, offers one choice. The school emerged in its present form as a result of the 1981 merger of the nationally touted magnet school, the Cambridge Alternative Public School, and the neighborhood district school, the Webster School. The school, now housed in Webster School's building, is the teaching center for 370 Cambridge children from kindergarten through eighth grade...