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| Rita Harvey (a former Christine in Phantom) turns in the best musical performance with her disarmingly strong rendition of "Ethel's Lament, " about bitterness over her unsatisfying relationship with a married man... Harvey, Jody Madaras and Melissa Hart are the excellent Chichester trio, embodying their disgust with Peg (or Margaret, as they insist on calling her) with melodramatic facial expressions and haughty line deliveries, making their focus on money and sophistication all the more ridiculous and hilariously unsympathetic. - Broadway.com |
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| Sweeney Todd |
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| "Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street" has set up shop at Marriott's Lincolnshire Theatre, where he's offering his inimitable close shave to anyone who dates takes a seat. The sharp, mordantly funny and magnificently sung revival now at Marriott's is a bravura effort on every count - from its superb direction and exceptional cast to its lush costumes... Rita Harvey deploys her silvery soprano (and winning sense of humor) as the damsel in distress. - Chicago Sun Times |
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| Summer and Smoke |
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| Especially notable was soprano Rita Harvey as the young voice pupil, Nellie, who grows into a perfect match for John. Harvey sings with freshness, remarkable flexibility and beauty of tone. - The Des Moines Register |
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| "Broadway & Berg" at Feinstein's |
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| Enter the one member of the company who actually is related to Berg, his wife, Rita Harvey, who lends her sweet, clear voice to "Far From the Home I Love," from "Fiddler on the Roof." Harvey's voice is like cooling cream, effortless rising. A highlight is Harvey's introduction to the "Fairytale," a tender, earnest and unapologetically sentimental song from Berg's "Pollyanna." In Harvey's story, Dolly Parton and Berg's father figure prominently. "When I was just a girl. / I'd sit on daddy's knee. / And together we would read. / About Knights. / About Queens. / About Jack and his beans." Just charming. - LoHud.com |
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| "Broadway & Berg" at Feinstein's |
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| When Berg got to New York, it didn't take long to join up with a Broadway baseball team - the Phantom of the Opera gang where he met Rita Harvey. He played piano for her audition and then married her. She performed a poignant "Far From the Home I Love." - Times Square Chronicles |
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| Broadway to Barbados |
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| Rita Harvey followed, and gave a beautiful performance with Alex [Santoriello] of the duet "Tonight" from "West Side Story". Rita performed the role of Christine on Broadway and in the National Tour of "The Phantom of the Opera" from 1993-1998. She has also performed the role of Laurey in "Oklahoma"... A tiny, pixie-like creature with fine, pretty features, Rita opens her mouth and blows her viewers away with her very big voice. Her best performances of the night were as Christine for "The Phantom of the Opera," with Alex as the Phantom, and of a lovely song called "Fairytale," written by her husband and pianist for the night, Neil Berg, from the score he is composing called "Golf: A Musical in 18 Holes." - The Broad Street Journal |
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| Dearest Enemy |
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| Harvey makes a vivacious Betsy matched in intensity by the mellifluous William Thomas Evans. They have the best love songs, the haunting "Here In My Arms" and pretty "Bye and Bye." Betsy also gets to defend the female stake in war when her sweetheart tries to tell her it only "men's business." - New York Newsday |
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| Fidelio |
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| To the role of Marzelline, soprano Rita Harvey offered youthful exuberance and lyrical tone... - San Diego Union Tribune |
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| Frankenstein |
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| Rita Harvey (as Elizabeth, the fiancè) has a sweet sound. Her voice is beautiful, very easy on the ears. - Amazon.com |
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| Street Scene |
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| Rita Harvey makes a fine impression as the young - though certainly world-wise - Rose Maurrant. She sings with great beauty and conveys a sense of grace to this persevering character. - The Des Moines Register |
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| Street Scene |
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| "Seventy-five years from now," Kurt Weill told writer and librettist Arnold Sundgaard, "Street Scene will be remembered as my major work." ... so powerful was the impact made by Des Moines Metro Opera's production of Street Scene, presented at Blank Performing Arts Center in Indianola, that it made one reevaluate previously mixed impressions of the work... As Rose Maurrant, Rita Harvey stood out for the sensitivity of her acting, as well as her fine, light soprano, movingly conveying the plight this strong yet sympathetic young woman who refuses to let family tragedy destroy her determination to escape the tenement. - Opera News |
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| Three Wishes for Jamie |
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| Rita Harvey is a lovely and centered Maeve, doing well by the score's most interesting-and virtually only-character song, the soliloquy "What Do I Know?" - Backstage |
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| Three Wishes for Jamie |
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| Director Thomas Sabella-Mills has cast two spirited and charismatic leads in Michael Mahany as the hero and Rita Harvey as his love interest... As Jamie and Maeve, Mahany and Harvey, respectively, are both personable and persuasive performers with beautiful singing voices and help focus the somewhat loosely structured storyline. Mahany offers the blarney while Harvey's heroine is grounded in reality. - TheaterScene.net |
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