Word: cast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ballot-casters like Montaine and Dawes are important in New Hampshire because in primary states where two candidates vie for the support of the state party organization, new electors can cast the deciding votes...
...Andrews and a mismatched company of four) seemed to consist of leftovers garnished with Sondheim's less nourishing material and served up thematically as an odd sort of cocktail party. This Broadway revise finds the party device strengthened, but still forced, and the selection of songs improved. The new cast, led by Carol Burnett with great warmth and good humor, is creamy. Yet this remains a chilly pudding of a show that leaves one admiring Sondheim's artistry and the performers' panache, but still hungry...
...brooms to newspapers to matchboxes to Zippos, the percussionists take the show to new levels of creativity. A rustled trash bag morphs into an extraordinary orchestra of sound. A routine sweeping becomes a rhythmic blast. Set in a hubcap-adorned industrial-metallic garage, the three female and five male cast members turn the beat-heavy sound into something more than just a tribute to the powers of rhythm...
...percussionists put on an astounding display of physical dexterity and mental ingenuity. The rapid manipulation of the most basic objects into instruments is as much fun to watch as it is to hear. Perhaps "rapid" is an understatement. It is nearly impossible to follow the movements of the cast members as they smash their way along. One minute they are harnessed to a vertical wall of musical hubcaps, the next smashing broomsticks in a ritualistic dance. It was dance, drama, action and comedy rolled into a ball. And not a word was spoken...
...slings and arrows of outrageous fortune may have gotten a little weird for George W. Bush Thursday night, as fellow Republican presidential candidates cast him as a blend of Marie Antoinette and a Southern plantation owner - all in the course of a genteel policy exchange. Blue-blood publisher Steve Forbes led the charge, accusing the Texas governor of "betraying" Americans with his tax plan and proposals to consider raising the retirement age. Then arch-conservative Alan Keyes wrapped his criticism of the Bush tax plan in an out-of-left-field race reference to "Massah Bush." And the picture...