Word: balladeering
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...pale Galilean that used to be hung in children's bedrooms all over the country?a vision that has helped turn so many of the hip young off contemporary religion. Hawaii-born Yvonne Elliman, 19, has just the right combination of sweet, gentle good looks and crooning pop ballad style to suggest that Magdalene is really two Marys rolled into one. As Judas, Ben Vereen, 24, has one of the more physically demanding roles in the history of Broadway. Not only must he sing at great length?in a style that suggests Sammy Davis Jr. imitating Chuck Berry?...
...opening cut, "Imagine," is a ballad that seems to be turning into an AM radio hit. It is simple and pretty; unfortunately, the lyrics are a little icky, as John's peace-and-love songs tend to get. "Crippled Inside" is a ragtime kind of song that sounds a lot like "Rainy Day Women Numbers 12 and 35." The words are among the best and most serious of the album...
...Frontier Ballad...
...root of it, what the show really lacks is its own special style. Most of James Trittipo's sets seem to misfire (for example, Gabey's ballad "Lonely Town" is played against a sky-blue background interrupted only by three stalagmite-like skyscrapers which make the place look more like Monument Valley), although the first act's Times Square design, crowded with neon that even extends to a multi-colored proscenium, hits pointblank. Crowded up against the footlights, the large ensemble looks exactly like the blatantly artificial casts that people the production stills I've seen from the period...
...factory, learned country-rock as a back-up singer with Delaney & Bonnie. Such rock celebrities as Leon Russell, Stephen Stills and Ry Cooder were happy to play back-up on her new (and first) A & M album -perhaps because of the sensational way she can bend a slow romantic ballad to a voice of pure honey and magnolia...