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Hopkins are affectingly somber... with resigned postures that suggest a haunted awareness of doom.... They brought tears to my eyes." Seegmiller also appears on the
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commented that in the show's signature song, "Memory", she "creates a moment that's beautifully painful ... and melancholy with a glimmer of hope. Her voice seems to penetrate each word of the familiar lyrics, extracting the core meaning". In
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wrote, "The only member of the cast to escape the director's unmusical ministrations was Lisa
Hopkins, who, as Donna Anna, managed to ignore the squeezebox screeches coming from the pit and speakers and deliver a sensitive lament."
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eyes and fluttery voice, was deliciously funny as Corvina" (in
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