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...often revived, with such imposing casts. Jason Robards has long fanned the flame on Broadway, / and London has seen many winning revivals: the Glenda Jackson Strange Interlude, Desire Under the Elms with Colin Firth and Carmen Du Sautoy, A Touch of the Poet with Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave. Actors love digging to the core of a role, no matter how long it takes; and O'Neill's plays, which idle in dour exposition before revving into revelation, let them reproduce that effort every night. For playgoers, the appeal is simpler. Once O'Neill warms up his characters -- lets them...
...Eugene -- the tramp poet in a fog, the son who ran away to sea -- raging at a dying generation's prejudices before reconciling himself to the people who hold them. In a subtler way, Richardson has donned the mantle of her incandescent mother, Vanessa Redgrave. By evening's end, the young star has settled onto the old O'Neill sofa. Why, they might have been made for each other...
...false dawn when Howard Hanson's Merry Mount and Deems Taylor's The King's Henchman, among other worthy pieces, took the stage at the Met only to disappear soon after. A few decades later, composers such as Douglas Moore (Baby Doe), Robert Ward (The Crucible) and Samuel Barber (Vanessa) made another attempt to establish American opera, but their works faded as well...
Interspersed among the songs is a series of phone conversations between Prince and an intrepid reporter named Vanessa Bartholomew, sportingly played by Cheers TV star Kirstie Alley. "Why do you pretend to be a maze?" she asks in exasperation. "I'm amazed at your beauty," Prince replies. But his real answer seems to be in the lyric of My Name Is Prince, in which he declares, "I know from righteous I know from sin/ I got two sides and they're both friends...
...Democrats and Clinton are trying to pleaseevery group that comes up, and you can't always dothat," says 17-year-old Vanessa O. Ezenwa. Ezenwa,who is Black, said she came to the convention tolearn about the Republican party and the politicalprocess...