Word: chorused
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...Improvise," which feels more licentious and uninhibited, with a Spanish rhythm. This mood music then gives way to a series of clipped scenes, each with its own song: "Ze Sidealk Cafe" is cleverly lyricized, sprinkled with stock French expressions ("au contraire...laissez-faire...Camembert") and sung individually by chorus members in a cute, Epcot Center-World Show-case style...
...much else; they do very little acting throughout. Colum Amory as Phileas Fogg is characterless at first, but by the end gives some emotional depth to the tight British explorer. Wynne Love as Maureen has perfected her Irish accent, and simultaneously sings and acts with soul. The chorus is unanimated in the background, providing no action or interest of note. The script doesn't allow for the actors to do very much else besides sing, and as the show progresses we are struck with the distinct impression that this is a series of musical numbers with very little...
Erik gets up to dance when Banks plays the opera's "Street Boys' Chorus...
...game and the dynamics of the production. For example, she failed to support her assertion that HRG&SP "seems to regularly eschew creativity in favor of predictable bland productions," an opinion which has not been shared by a number of past Crimson reviewers. Her comment that the chorus' performance was "plagued by one member so annoying that I spent most of the show wishing that a flat would drop on her" was insensitive, unhelpful and obviously not shared by everyone (please note the independent review...
...unimaginative and rote, sort of the directorial equivalent of painting by numbers. Many bad cliches are used in this production--from the overture pantomime of Tessa and Gianetta (five minutes watching the two girls place flowers in baskets oh so carefully) to the set staging of the chorus. When Casilda is holding a rose during a bittersweet love song, you know she will drop it at the end. She does. The evening is full of things like that too depressing to recount here...