Word: broadway
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...massage and swimming. In the evening, they return to the ship for dinner in Lumiere's restaurant, the Parrot Cay or the Animators' Palate, where for dessert they get to "paint" their own sundae with chocolate, strawberry and mango sauces. Then it's off to one of three Broadway-style shows, which, as of last week, needed a lot of doctoring. One, a pirate yarn called Voyage of the Ghost Ship, is a calamity unworthy of the Disney name...
HELEN HUNT: Taking the plunge into Shakespeare, the TV star turned Oscar winner comes through swimmingly. As the shipwrecked, lovestruck, cross-dressing Viola in a limited-run Broadway revival of Twelfth Night, Hunt sparkles almost as much as the onstage pool in a production that is a midsummer night's dream...
...great drawback of Broadway is that its moments are fleeting; they float up to the rafters and disappear with the crowd. Hollywood's advantage, of course, is its immortality. In a hundred years, the plays and ballets of Jerome Robbins will be wisps of memory. But West Side Story (1961) will live forever. The moviemakers had taken Robbins's "Fancy Free" and etched it as On The Town in 1949; "West Side Story" he decided to do himself. Or nearly so; Robbins was teamed with Robert Wise as codirectors. They hated each other (when the duo received the Best Director...
Candy from a Stranger certainly possesses several well-done songs, while the rest of the album is mushed together in a string of undistinguished melodies and choruses. For example, the songs "Close" and "No Time for Waiting" are both extremely reminiscent of Broadway ballads. Although "Close" has a grabbing opening guitar line, it soon is overtaken by whininess and sounds too much like it should be sung on the Great White Way, not at a grunge concert. "No Time for Waiting" also feels like a showtune--it is too cartoonish, with no reality to its emotions. Perhaps these two songs...
...Sadly, each time the tune becomes really worthwhile, it stops, gets slow and whines until it picks up more momentum. The best way to describe "New York Blackout" is to say that it is enjoyable--good at some points, cheesy at others, but not quite enough to be a Broadway tune...