Word: vocalized
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Children of Eden's cast brings together tremendous vocal power, and the show itself continually maintains a feeling of dialogue with the audience. Director Mimi Asnes returns the flexible Loeb Ex to the set-up of a traditional theater, one where the audience enters into the seating area with the stage directly in front. This is clearly the most effective use of the Loeb's space for this production, for Children of Eden begins as a story, and the audience is an extension of an onstage audience awaiting the tale of creation and the flood...
...stage, and his voice only emerges fully confident at the end of Act I. The theater, moreover, occasionally feels cramped, especialy during the large ensemble numbers. Almost every scene has the storytellers, or chorus, sitting in white robes on the edges of the stage. And perhaps most importantly, the vocal coherence of the musical is often lost when the cast begins dancing to a musical number. Lighting adjustments, such as more use of the spotlight to focus the audience on the soloists, would alleviate the problem...
Still, Act II is undeniably the stronger of the acts, for it showcases more vocal talent and retells a more unfamiliar story, the saga of Noah's son Japheth and his love for Yonah, a member of the race of Cain. The voices of Noah (Ryan Shrime '00), Mama Noah (Ashley McCants '02), Yonah (Jody Flader '02), and Japheth (Jason McNeely '00) fill the room admirably and beautifully complement each other...
Furthermore, because the actual presidential election is so far away, voter turnout is extraordinarily low for primaries. As a result, a particularly active or vocal minority can sway party primaries very easily. Voters in the primary elections tend to be entrenched party members, and candidates routinely campaign toward the extremes and special interests of specific states during the primaries to capture party votes, then move back to the middle for the national election. As a result, there is no motivation for candidates to campaign either consistently or with the interest of the whole nation in mind as they go state...
...candidates have been boasting of their support among the young voters, though two Republicans, Steve Forbes and John McCain, have been particularly vocal about the extent of their college operations in their campaigns. The Republicans have more at stake in attracting young volunteers, campaign officials said...