Word: solo
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Along the way came a TV special for ABC and another for Home Box Office that won three Emmy Awards, both starring his title-winning counterpart, Katarina Witt of what was then East Germany. The TV shows taught Boitano that he and Witt, although trained since early childhood as solo skaters, could enjoy the different discipline of working as a pair and, more important, had a chemistry that satisfied audiences. Says Witt: "We both like to express feelings and live within the characters and story. I think more about a character when I'm with someone else...
...Boitano and Witt, moreover, skating together represents a pragmatic compromise between getting an audience and pursuing their true calling, solo performance. Says Witt: "We each have two solos per show. But we also do partner skating, which is totally different." The moves in pair skating are much closer to dance and emphasize carrying and tossing the female partner rather than individual jumps and spins. Thus the genre is at once less athletic than what Boitano and Witt are used to and far more athletic than what they can achieve together without years of practice. Witt, who is not pushing herself...
...even sillier. Again, contemporary audiences may be a little queasy about the condescension to dialect and folkways and the equation of black status with pseudowhite behavior. But there is a nonpareil score by George and Ira Gershwin (Someone to Watch Over Me, Clap Yo' Hands) and a display of solo and ensemble tap dancing, by Gregg Burge and a 16-member chorus under the direction of Dan Siretta, that is unsurpassed on Broadway...
...never thought Simon and Garfunkel was going to break up," Garfunkel says. "We just thought we'd take a break from each other." "Going out solo was my decision," Simon says now. "But I was nervous about it." The record company had a case of the corporate faints: Simon was busting up an act whose last record had sold 10 million copies. But the boys were having problems. Garfunkel was getting absorbed in acting, while Paul was taking his first turns down various lightly charted musical byways. "There was stuff I wanted to do anyway that Artie wouldn't have...
...acting in Chicago is as helter-skelter as the rest of the production, it is one of the production's stronger aspects. The cast members clearly relish their roles, and they bring a contagious energy to this play. Standouts include Roemer, who impresses both vocally and dramatically in her solo, "I Know a Girl," and Tombar, who gives a performance reminiscent of Louis Armstrong in High Society. His plea for sympathy, "Mr. Cellophane," is the show's outstanding musical moment...