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Director Laith Zawawi scraps the traditional Greek chorus and employs in its place the streamlined commentary of the Dark and Light Spirits. Henry as the Light Spirit and a Darth Vaderesque Christina Kiely as her darker counter-part are permanent fixtures to the play. When they don't have any lines they simply stand there spreading their good or bad karma. It's quite a New Age-like concept--one can almost feel all that cosmic energy being thrown about...
...musical is not without its flaws. Chiffon (Roxanne Lockhart), Crystal (Melanie Sarino) and Ronette (Ketanji Brown), the show's girl group-style Greek chorus, open the show with a rendition of the title song that is more yelled than sung. Their support of Tomarken during "Dentist" is good, but the quality of their performances fluctuates wildly, and this is a problem which most of the cast shares...
Johnston's is more than merely another voice added to an already deafening chorus. He is a leading power in a body that will be controlled by the Democrats 55 to 45, a Senate that promises Bush greater resistance than Ronald Reagan ever faced. Few if any Senators believe Bush's content-free campaign won him a mandate. And none believe Bush possesses the communications skills that permitted Reagan to pitch successful appeals beyond Congress for public support...
...than on the anniversary of his birth, his memory becomes jaundiced. No matter how much attention is paid to his achievements in public life, these accomplishments seem less significant when viewed in the ominous shadow of his assasination. It is like watching a play of his life with a chorus sitting in the rear of the stage whispering "if only he had lived, if only he had lived..." Unfortunately, Kennedy's death, now a national obsession, has become the most memorable accomplishment of his life...
...fans got the first licks with a chorus of "Yale band sucks," which they quickly reduced to just plain "Yale sucks" when the Crimson helped their cause with a touchdown and field goal...