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Even with more commercial works that play the regionals with one eye on the ultimate prize--Broadway--the audience participates in a more direct way. Last winter Ellen Burstyn played the title role in Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, a one-woman stage adaptation of Allan Gurganus' best-selling novel, which had its world premiere at San Diego's Old Globe Theater. She was still stumbling a bit (engagingly, catching herself with a casual "I mean ...") as she tried to master the demanding part, but audiences had the frisson of being present at the development of what may (when...
...seem to have genuine affection for Ono's dramatic howls. The Danny Tenaglia Walked Across the Lake Mix cleverly elongates her abstract vocal--"I gave you my knife, you gave me my life/Like a gush of wind in my hair"--until Ono sounds every bit like the grieving widow she is. The Pet Shop Boys' Radio Mix builds tension around a pop rhythm so magnificently that there's nothing--save the perversity of corporate radio--to keep it from becoming a crossover...
...regal woman with a rich voice, Hiller was George Bernard Shaw's leading lady, first as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and then, most memorably, in Major Barbara. Her aristocratic bearing served her well as a tourist in Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express and as the elegant widow in the London stage version of Driving Miss Daisy...
...credits to Agnes. When he died in 1994, his estate was divided among his four children, according to the terms of a prenuptial agreement, with Agnes allowed use of the family home. Today Reckdahl, 66, a retired teacher living in Grove City, Minn., is close to her father's widow, who lives nearby. "To me, she's like an aunt," Reckdahl says. "To our grown children, she's their adored Agnes. And to her step-great-grandchildren, she's Grandma...
Viola’s main task is to help the Duke woo the widow Olivia—which wouldn’t be a problem except that Viola falls in love the Duke and Olivia falls in love with Viola in her male garb. Things get all the more confusing when Sebastian, who looks just like the disguised Viola arrives on the scene...