Word: calypsos
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...imminent. Still, an irresistibly energetic and shamelessly folksy overgrown cabaret show, Five Guys Named Moe, featuring jazz of the 1930s and '40s and nonstop dancing by an all-black cast, has taken London by storm. It is headed for Broadway next April, complete with group singing of calypso bebop and a whole-audience conga line at intermission...
AMERICAN SCENE A calypso beat in button-down New England...
...Calypso-flavored steel drumming is not the average class offering at Choate, where students dress like L.L. Bean models and carry lacrosse sticks across carefully manicured lawns. Located in Wallingford, Conn., 12 miles north of New Haven, it is the button-down boarding school boasting such notable alumni as John F. Kennedy and Glenn Close -- a place of birch and magnolia trees and Colonial Revival brick buildings with white trim, intimate dormers and gilded towers...
...otherworldliness is strongest in Once on This Island. It blends a color- splashed tropical look, a calypso-influenced sound and folkloric storytelling with a moral order and sense of justice derived from ancient Greek myths. A romance between a foundling girl of the peasant class (La Chanze) and a scion of wealthy planters (Jerry Dixon) seems hopeless in this life yet is resolved happily in generations to come, through enchantment and physical transformations of mankind into nature...
...Horizons has an enviable record: many of its limited-run hits, including Driving Miss Daisy, The Heidi Chronicles and Falsettoland, have moved on to greater fame on larger stages. The latest gift, to Broadway, is this musical folktale about love and magic on a mythical Caribbean isle, with a calypso-flecked score that may remind some of Disney's The Little Mermaid...