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Despite these themes, preparations for the play have been filled with excitement. Many members of the cast even sport matching “Pelican” team t-shirts as they rehearse...
Beyond some natural talents in the acting department, “Chicago” also boasts some excellent dancers in its cast, and an overwhelming strength of the production lies in the choreography, courtesy of Christine M. Fitzgerald ’07, Michaela B. “Mimi” Owusu ’07, and Megan M. Powell ’08, and Nicola E. Ulibarri...
Sadly, for the most part, the production did not make the most of the amazing choreography—especially disappointing as audiences usually flock to Fosse shows specifically for the dancing. In many of the synchronized group numbers, the cast was noticeably out of sync...
...reliance on overacting. This issue results in two major detriments to the opera. Firstly and most practically, the dialogues often drag on a bit long because of the overacting, and it ends up making the opera a great deal longer than it needs to be. Secondly, the cast invokes very little audience compassion for the characters, most of whom deserve at least a little. The spare set and lack of an overall visual theme hinders the production a little bit. There is a noticeable lack of atmosphere in most of the sets, but the colorful lighting and effective...
...attacks have cast the piercing light of public scrutiny on a mission that was approved with little attention and almost no debate, and some Canadians have begun to wonder whether the effort is worth it. "Canada should pull its troops out," York University professor James Laxer wrote in a commentary in the Globe and Mail last week, arguing that Canadians "are not engaged in peacekeeping" but participating in a war aimed at establishing U.S. "hegemony" in that part of the world...