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...gorgeous string arrangement of Nothing Compares 2 U. But it's the first disc--full of unreleased tracks, covers and a few new songs--that's the revelation. O'Connor has never sounded like a little girl, but she manages innocence on Love Hurts, while her version of the Abba powder puff Chiquitita raises the song to something approaching beauty. O'Connor has said that She Who Dwells ... will be her last album, but then O'Connor says a lot of things. Maybe, like Franklin, she should stick to communicating through her singing voice...
...gorgeous string arrangement of Nothing Compares 2 U. But it's the first disc - full of unreleased tracks, covers and a few new songs - that's the revelation. O'Connor has never sounded like a little girl, but she manages innocence on Love Hurts, while her version of the Abba powder-puff Chiquitita raises the song to something approaching beauty. O'Connor has said that She Who Dwells ... will be her last album, but then O'Connor says a lot of things. Maybe, like Franklin, she should stick to communicating through her singing voice
...much. Since it's a trunk show of songs from the 80s ska group Madness, and since it's about a young man who splits in two to see whether he'd turned out right if he went bad, the show could have been a mix of the amateur ABBA show "Mamma Mia" and London's longest-running bad musical, "Blood Brothers" (15 years and it hasn't had the grace to close). But the Tim Firth book weaves the songs smartly around a cleverly developed situation, and director Matthew Warchus moves the dense human traffic with lightning precision. Even...
...Heat blazes onto the scene just as a new wave of emerging musicians are learning lessons from the Sex Pistols and the Clash while taking night classes with ABBA. Though the band shares the manic energy of the garage movement and the infectious melodies of the new wave revival, they’re a little too radio-friendly for the former and too raucous for the latter...
Quickly, credit where credit is due: the ABBA-scored musical is orchestrated well, the violin and keyboard work is noteworthy and the choreography is very sound. The vocal ability of the cast is impressive, and the female lead Rebecca J. Levy ’06, as Florence, is uniquely superb. Benjamin D. Margo ’04 -’05, who is also a Crimson editor, sings well and acts competently as the Russian chessmaster Anatoly Sergivesky, though less could be said of Travis Nesbitt in the role of his childlike American counterpart, Freddie Trumper. Nesbitt, though excellent when...