Word: weinstein
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Featuring Noam Weinstein, Ashley Filip and Jessica Tardy...
...Noam Weinstein '99 opened the night with a diverse collage of six original songs. An unremarkable-looking college kid on his soapbox in a T-shirt and sneakers--no rage, no angst, no gimmick--Weinstein had nothing to sell him but a voice and a talent. But once he started, he transported the audience in the packed cafe to another musical plateau where his expansive skill and solid music flooded...
...consummate storyteller and musician, Weinstein's gift is a quick poetic sharpness. And this is not let down by his original melodies, or a voice with a winningly odd way of talking the music while slipping four notes into a single word. Whether it was an amusing imaginary song like "Twelve Last Words" and "Maximum Security Life" or a gentle musing like "People Watching," Weinstein always displayed complete mastery of his music and slid effortlessly between sensitivity and soft comedic entertainment...
...real show-stopper of the night was Jessica Tardy '99, with her smoking brand of funk rock and blues. Accompanied by Tyler Wood '01 (Keyboard), Andy Eggers '99 (drums), John Cappelo (bass), and Noam Weinstein (guitar)--who were all excellent in their own right--Tardy rocked the house with a voice and presence that Passim was straining to contain. Beginning with a borrowed song from Weinstein, Tardy poured out on the audience a voice like a steaming bath--spiked with scotch...
Many of these actors, most noticeably MichaelRosenberg '01 and Jared Weinstein '00, areobviously inexperienced and are obviously actingvery hard. But here too, as with the play itself,it is admirable that inexperience was given achance, that so many new actors were brought intothe theater...