Word: exceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...change turned out to be a fruitful one for all involved--except perhaps the opposing forwards. Erulkar garnered all-League honors in both his junior and senior years, and was voted co-captain of the team his final year...
...Everyone except for six-year olds who've seen "Annie" knows that the thirties weren't all that happy. George Haimsohn and Robin Miller, who wrote the book and lyrics of Dames at Sea, surely do--but did they know what they were doing when they inserted a particularly offensive quasi-Oriental song and dance into their show? "Singapore Sue" (She's so soft and gentle/She's my favorite Oriental) plays on thirties fantasies about sinister Orientals: the pantomime that accompanies the song portrays a wicked slant-eyed madam shanghaiing girls to work in her brothel, where they lure Occidental...
...Except for those five minutes of the show, Dames at Sea is an almost unobjectionable production. From the moment little Ruby from Utah walks into "any 42nd Street Theatre" and announces she wants to star in a Broadway show, Ellen Zachos' wide-eyed insouciance insures Ruby will make it big in show business. But first the nasty leading lady of the show about to open that night, Mona Kent (Susannah Rabb), must be eliminated, done neatly when the public-works projects of the W.P.A. force the play-within-the-play to open on a battleship, where Miss Kent succumbs...
There's less acting to be done: this musical is very musical. With eight songs in each of the two acts, the dialogue never lasts long enough to be dull. Except when Howard Cohen's on stage. Fortunately, he has the smallest part of the six leads, although he doubles for the director of the Broadway show and the captain of the battleship. Cohen sings passably, but none of his spoken lines carry any conviction, And an actor needs conviction to get away with lines like "It's a chance in a million, but it just might work...
...just kept thinking that it was so amazing to be able to go to Colorado," she said. "Except for the really bizarre weather, it was a lot of fun. And we started playing really well together in the games. I think it was the best soccer we've played all season...