Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beats a minute), the mix ("natural," "spacious," "sparse" or "karaoke"), the mood ("bright," "happy," "thoughtful," "sad" or "dark"), even the form ("creative," "standard" or "conservative"). They can hatch new sounds by sampling the 933 snatches of music in the data base. Did you ever want to play the chorus of a favorite song over and over? You can do it here. At a click, you can do almost anything...
...Degrees" greatest asset remains John Guare's dazzling script. With humor and affection, it pokes fun at everything from marriage ("My wife is a dada manifesto"), to Cats ("Aeschylus did not invent theater to have it end with a bunch of chorus kids wondering which of them will go to Kitty Kat Heaven."), to Harvard students, ("Is that all I am? An investment?"). At the same time it captures with great compassion and understanding the tragic fears and disappointments in the lives of those who seem to have...
...fact that the Bush administrationcriticized Aristide's relatively minor record isindicative of the Reagan and Bush administrations'"delicate sensitivity about Human Rights," saidChomsky to a chorus of snickers from the audience
...extraordinary youth who is in search of something to be extraordinary at. Pippin satirizes the genre while at the same time reveling in it. Unfortunately, in this production, neither the satire nor the reveling are fully realized. Pippin requires outrageous, over-the-top caricature and outrageous, over-the-top chorus numbers, neither of which it receives here...
...they should have. Or perhaps it would be better to say it was impossible for them to go as far as they should have. This show properly belonged on the mainstage, with a much larger cast, stage and budget. As it was, the small chorus seemed hard-pressed to avoid bumping into props during the big production numbers. The cramped choreography also served to restrain the enthusiasm of the songs. All in all, it's hard to avoid the impression that, in this case at least, bigger might have been better...