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...Missionary Monk" almost brought the audience to tears with a heartfelt sermon backed by a string trio; the audience could only express its rapture with exclamations of "Cello! Cello!" Then it was funk, funk, funk, and more funk, with the full power of the band, horns, and "Celestial Chorus" cruising alongside the "Monk...
Gondoliers has a strong supporting cast as well, unusual for the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Laura White's Duchess and Marcia Groome's Inez give fine cameo performances and the chorus, although plagued by one member so annoying that I spent most of the show wishing a flat would drop on her, has a fine vocal quality...
Some will blame MTV for raising these youths on images of sex and violence. Some will blame less than ideal home lives. Some will blame monetary troubles, some unresponsive teachers. Some will blame you, some will blame me, and many will blame themselves. But as this false chorus of collective culpability reaches a crescendo, the real guilty party can still he heard if you listen carefully enough. He is the boy laughing while another lies choking on his own blood...
...that!" (when one man climbs a Chinese pole on sheer wrist power or descends using only his thighs); and "Ooooh, that's beautiful!" (when four aerialists do a bungee-cord ballet). But no artiste is allowed to be a specialist. All must do double duty, as Harlequins or chorus girls, to fit into the precise, giddy scheme devised by director Franco Dragone and his team...
...show, Putting It Together, is loosely conceived as a party at which old flames flicker and new ones spark. To quote Sondheim's nearest intellectual forebear, Cole Porter, what a swell party it is. With new material from Sondheim, designs by three Tony winners, choreography by Bob Avian (A Chorus Line, Miss Saigon) and a cast headed by Julie Andrews in her first New York stage appearance since Camelot in 1961, the show seems absurdly overabundant for its venue, a nonprofit house seating 299. But then, impresario Cameron Mackintosh (Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables) has been showing up night...