Word: rona
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...lover, Rona Figueroa enjoys more success. Her voice is clear and her line-readings are appropriate for the character. Nevertheless, Figueroa’s performance is so full of wide-eyed innocence, especially late in the play, that Kim appears less sympathetic than foolish. Skie Ocasio, as Thuy, the husband Kim’s parents arranged for her prior to their deaths, offers a performance unrivaled among the supporting cast. Ocasio shines with a powerful presence and robust singing voice. Though he must appear in a painfully bad second act flashback, he handles even that sequence with skill...
...Rona Jaffe [bestselling author] and I were both in class together,” she notes. “She was brilliant even then––I was very average...