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Streetchoir's material comes mostly from Gil Moses, the leader: once a playwright, his songs frequently conceal complex and sensitive lyrics beneath tense, often loud, always fascinating arrangements. Ranging from blues ballads to wistful humor, his songs hit a kind of rightness, a truth not often found in lyrics. In Endless Dialogue, Streetchoir's bitterest, best ballad, a verse runs...
...following 45 days in a coma; in Nyack, N.Y. In five gothic novels, she probed soul-deep into a misbegotten Dixie brood and found both depravity and innocence. Her characters ranged from Frankie Addams, tremulous near womanhood in The Member of the Wedding, to brutish Amelia Evans in The Ballad of the Sad Café. After reaching overnight success in 1940 with her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, she was beset by gradual paralysis, but kept writing-until, as it did for the dying pharmacist in her last novel, her own "clock without hands" ran down...
Billie Joe, says Bobbie, is a ballad based on her recollection of life around...
...tales have a certain unity, concerned as they are with that incessant search for identity common to so many American writers. The title story is a discursive account of a momentous day in the life of a precocious five-year-old. The Misfits is the cow-country ballad about obsessed horse hunters that later became a celebrated movie starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. One of the best stories, Fitter's Night, has a sibling relationship to Miller's 1955 Broadway play, A View from the Bridge. It describes the life and hilarious hard times...
...Only when the proceedings stop is it in trouble. For that reason, while saluting the urge which produced them, I have to register objection to three attempts to make legitimate this joyfully bastard show: the self-conscious counterpoint of the "Like You Like It" reprise; the weak, semi-serious ballad, "Is It Really Me"; and the tedious choreography of Pan's Dance, which wastes the considerable talents of Director Wilson and dancer Ron Porter...