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What saves Supporting Rommilly are the beautiful music composed by Jennifer Giering and the cast's superb performances. Giering's music is melodious and displays variety and maturity, although occasionally it does not match the tone of the play. Brad Rouse's lyrics are clever and sparkle with humor...
...this time. Installed in the vast, operatic spaces of MOCA'S industrial annex, the Temporary Contemporary -- once a police-car garage -- the show looks like the Gotterdammerung of academic Postmodernism: inflated, whining, self-indulgent and occasionally clever-clever. Given thousands and thousands of square feet in which to diffuse itself, the intellectual vacuity of the artists is such that their molecules of thought hardly even bump together...
...interest on the debt. This amounts to $200 billion a year, hardly any of which will ever fill an orphan's tummy or dry a poor widow's tear. Instead, most of it flows directly to a handful of institutions and relatively well-heeled folks who were clever enough to lend the government money at profitable rates. To these fortunate individuals (nearly 15% of whom are not even American citizens), there is indeed a U.S. government, or at least someone who disburses those dividend checks...
Perhaps it's emblematic of our society that today's Tag Lines seem much more concerned with being clever ("When you tease someone under a pine tree, you needle them") and cynical ("A woman who tells her weight has nothing to lose") than with promoting moral righteousness and responsibility ("When the wells dry, we know the worth of water...
...numbers to blackface minstrel songs--a genre with a strange place in the history of popular American music. The arrangements of the songs vary, but are all thickly textured with instruments rarely present in popular music today such as fiddle, mandolin, banjo, "field snare" and "bones." Shocked Iyrics are clever and ironic, only sometimes focusing on traditional country and blues lyrical themes...