And it may work for Barbara Blackburn, a former model and soap opera actress who is doing a charming one-woman show, "Extreme Girl," at the Currican Theater through Sunday.
By all accounts, this show should have got lost in the mix.But this performer does such a charming job of describing something so universal (the first rush of love) that he's become an audience favourite.
"I'll bet tears are to a grief counselor what straight teeth are to an orthodontist," confides Sophie, who really does have a charming way with offhanded, self-deprecating one-liners.
He was good at drawing and did a really charming, diffident design for his own Christmas cards each year.
He periodically did a hugely charming dance in which he raised his arms up from his sides and shuffled his feet back and forth.
Bald, charming, does a good job in a supporting role in 43% of American movies.
Robert Cuccioli, best known as the title characters in "Jekyll & Hyde" on Broadway, is always charming and does a competent impersonation of Maurice Chevalier, the dapper and romantic French song-and-dance man, but that's as far as it goes.
Prendergast didn't paint in a large scale but his oil, "Lighthouse at St . Malo from 1907 done in a charming almost primitive style in which the conspicuous brush strokes of Impression are enlarged.
The European Championships do have a charming history of surprises -- the talented young Dutch in 1988, the outsider Danes in 1992.
Doubles from €125 B&B, +351 961 732 958, herdadedosobroso.pt Nature expert Frank McClintock came here in 1987, fell in love with the place and its peace, and built Quinta do Barranco da Estrada, a charming nine-room hideout, 45 miles north of Portimão.
