Word: chamberlins
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...song I actually like. On their sixth album, “Widow City,” the brother-sister duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger continue their brand of bluesy, loosely constructed indie, going to town with the various instruments Matthew has managed to find (this includes a Chamberlin). According to the website of their new label, Thrill Jockey, the lyrics were inspired by a combination of ads from the back of early seventies design magazines, the cultural pages of local alternative lifestyle newspapers, and the Baccalieri children’s use of a Ouija board in season four...
...including "Easter Parade" and "Heat Wave") and a sassier tone. Maybe Encores! skipped it because the show was vibrantly revived in 1998 by the New York company The Drama Department, with a cast that included Judy Kuhn, Howard McGillin, B.D. Wong and that giant bear of musical comedy, Kevin Chamberlin...
...Chamberlin is one of the stars of Stairway to Paradise, and so is Berlin; he has six songs in this pastiche of revue numbers from the first years of the 20th century through New Faces of 1952. There are more than 30 tunes, some more familiar than others, and two comedy sketches - the first (the 1923 "The Yellow Peril") a one-gag item in which goldenrod flowers on the stage make all the actors sneezes they speak, the other (the 1949 "Gorilla Girl") about a jungle movie with very dumb starlet and a very smart gorilla. Both sketches...
...Chenoweth gets excellent support from the two comic leads: the giant, sweetly Shrek-like Chamberlin and the smaller Christopher Fitzgerald, who makes me think of Sean Penn reconfigured as a tummeling song-and-dance man. I also liked the unaffected geniality of Shonn Wiley and was dazzled to submission by Kendrick Jones, tap-dancer supreme and a handsome charmer, if I may say, to boot...
...poker by gossiping cattily about clothes, makeup and rivals, and was put on film in the 40s revue Star Spangled Rhythm, with Fred MacMurray, Franchot Tone, Ray Milland and Lynne Overman as the feminine men. I'd like to have seen how it played, especially with the ursine Chamberlin...