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...genre normally confined to parades and football fields, few could have guessed that Broadway would be the next step in the evolution of marching band and drum corps. Yet having just finished its week-long run at the Wang Theatre, Blast! does just that. The show takes outdoor pageantry long consigned to the fringe of musical legitimacy and translates it into high art without sacrificing any of its popular appeal...
From the first note, Blast! proves itself to be much more than a marching band that took a wrong turn on the way to a football game. The show takes an innovative approach by combining elements of both modern dance and the marching arts. In choosing to forgo a traditional storyline and instead to rely on a series of musical tableaux themed around the color spectrum, Blast! succeeds in communicating pure emotion...
...Blast! develops, the colors become progressively warmer, and with this change in mood, the performers become more playful on stage. The actors interact with the audience, running down the aisles, shaking audience’s hands, and encouraging those in their seats to clap in unison with the music. This warming effect is further enhanced by the musical repertoire, which begins as somber and reflective, switches to light and playful, and in the final scene is brash and bellicose...
...Asia's most-threatening insurgent movements, that notion died last week as reports of atrocities mounted?at least 34 police officers killed in an attack in remote Sitalpati in the midwest, five bus passengers blown apart by a bomb for defying a general strike call and a bomb blast that injured one man in the capital, Kathmandu. "This is now a serious threat to the existence of the state," says Prakash C. Lohani, a former Foreign Minister. "It is clear that the survival of the ruling class itself is at stake...
...second period, junior winger Trevor Beaney took advantage of a Harvard line change to blast a slap shot past Grumet-Morris, making the score...