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...cast's quick reaction to a near-tragedy erased the audience's concerns, and the play continued without a hitch. Audiences who will see the musical this weekend hopefully will not smell burnt wires and see flying sparks. The lively production of this clever, melodramatic score has plenty of sparks...
PEOPLE WHO started out thinking of Stephen Sondheim as just a clever lyricist have long ago given him his due as an artist--and a chameleon. As soon as he started writing the music to go behind his own words. Sondheim began varying the roles he could play--sliding a melody off key or twisiting a double-entendre into mid-line, he was the vitriolic social critic in Sweenes Todd, the light satirist in A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, the gentle troubadour in A Little Night Music; he was blandly anthologized as cultural phenomenon...
...modern traditions in the script, and the exotic scenery and costumes are the strongest aspects of this production. The Persuasive acting and fluid articulation of witty, almost tongue-twisting lines are impressive, but they lose their effectiveness because they necessitate too much concentration. Giroux and Patrick rapidly fire off clever, funny lines throughout the two and a half hours until it almost becomes tiring...
...ascendant leftist theories threatened to replace one form of tyranny with another. "The truth is that to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which 'we,' the clever ones, are going to impose upon 'them,' the Lower Orders...
...hottest band of the moment from England or, very likely, from anywhere else. The group's success is almost as wild as the opera poof masquerades of its lead singer, Boy George. Consider: three Top Ten singles from Culture Club's first album, Kissing to Be Clever, which sold more than a million copies; a fourth, fresh single, Church of the Poison Mind, already snug at No. 11, with another, Karma Chameleon, ready to take off; and a new album, Colour by Numbers, storming the LP charts...