Word: dumbness
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...Fine Arts concentrator believes Harvard athletes themselves are the best selling point to managing. "Harvard athletes are exceptional because they're not one-dimensional, dumb jocks, but caring, concerned individuals on a personal level," Welch said...
...show is clean. Unbesmirched by ambiguity, wiped of Weltshmerz, it comes to us like a babe, puerile and kicking. No meat for melodic meditation, no erudite arias, no recondite repartee a la intelligencia. In a word--a four-letter word--the book of Lady Be Good is gosh-darn dumb. But like the song says: the production has "got a rhythm, a rhythm, a rhythm" that could make "you all aquiver." The Gershwin songs are great, stuff your grandmother might have warbled in her day, still sprightly enough to get us up off our seats, to make Fred Astaires...
...conclusion, we find a dialectic in Lady Be Good--an unresolved dialectic. On one side stands the dumb dialogue, technical weakness and a lackluster beginning. On the other: great music, strong voices and peppy dancing. You just can't dive too deeply in the waters of this show. It's very pure, very shallow musical comedy...
...sweet, clear voice that strengthens as the show proceeds. Jean Budney churns out one marvelous scene as Amy, the incredibly jittery bride-to-be, and does justice to "Getting Married Today," a difficult and funny number that caps the first act. Finally, Maggie-Meg Reed is appropriately dumb and affecting as April, the stewardess who becomes yet another of Bobby's erstwhile lovers. The only real weakness in the cast is Bonnie DeLorme, who dreadfully overacts as Marta, the neurotic victim of single life in New York...
...like spinning out a legato line or singing a high C, are displayed in La Favorita. As an actor Pavarotti can be funny or tragic (both in La Bohème), or a careless aristocrat (the Duke in Rigoletto). But with his native wit and musical intelligence, Pavarotti cannot act dumb. Unfortunately, that is required of Fernando, the hero of La Favorita...