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...environmentalist. Poor old Mom, played by the usually effervescent Shar von Boskirk, has nothing to do but sit center-stage for the duration of the play, gurgling and babbling unconvincingly. Those who saw her in last year's West Side Story might have yearned for a chorus of America, but in vain; at least one can say that she pitches a nice epileptic...
...Doughty belted out the first few words of "Like a Prayer," which the rest of the crowd repeated back, and his recital of "Day in the Life" drew the applause and whistles of many slightly older members of the crowd. Songs like "Super Bon Bon" with its wicked uptempo chorus forced many others and me into that head-nodding-and-shaking-back-and-forth motion. Doughty's onstage mannerisms mimic Rage lead singer Zack De La Rocha, and if the lyrics were about some abused people somewhere, I wouldn't have noticed the difference...
Secondly, it has been said in an unending chorus, not only in Palestinian circles but throughout the Arab world, that Netanyahu doesn't want peace. And if it's repeated often enough, it assumes the aura of self-evident truth. It is false...
...songs on That Thing You Do! are faithful parodies: tight, with short verses and catchy tunes. Listen to Hanks describe the That Thing You Do! title tune, written by 28-year-old Adam Schlesinger: "There's a driving rhythm, and as it goes into the second chorus the entire crowd picks up on the beat. The singer steps back from the mike, the guitarist goes into a stumbling yet evocative solo, then it ends with a soul-satisfying bomp-bomp-bomp Waaaaangtwiddlelip!" The CD also has a song called I Need You (That Thing You Do), similar to the first...
Michael Gambon is one of the best, though American audiences have seen little of him. Acclaimed for his work in everything from Uncle Vanya to several of Alan Ayckbourn's most provocative comedies (A Chorus of Disapproval, Man of the Moment), Gambon is known here mainly as the star of Dennis Potter's admired TV mini-series, The Singing Detective. Now he's making his long-overdue U.S. stage debut, in a Broadway production of David Hare's Skylight. All the ingredients are there for stage magic; unfortunately, too many of the wires and trapdoors are clearly visible...