Gillian Murphy, making a New York role debut as Kitri, is a wondrous dancer but not as yet a good actor.
There are high-profile appearances on the Brad Paisley tour and a plum role in the highly anticipated return of Sarah McLachlan's wondrous Lilith Fair, heralded as "The Celebration of Women in Music," for the first time since 1999.
After being called "wondrous," "heartbreaking" and "darned near perfect" in her last few roles, she is back to looking, a hard task which is even harder for black actors, given the available roles.
For some wondrous acting, head to West Yorkshire Playhouse for Tim playingSmitheplaying titleitle role in the bleakest of King Lears.
Still, he was up against several Russian singers in leading roles whose comfort with the throaty idioms of the Russian tongue as set with wondrous naturalism by Mussorgsky was a pleasure to hear.
And what made Wilder — who approached each role with a rigor that came from training in both the Stanislavski and Strasberg methods — so irresistible was the wondrous tension of precisely when his mania would erupt.
But what a wondrous treat.
