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Sondheim brilliantly complements a serious look at relationships and one man's realization of his own free will with 15 whimsical musical numbers. Beneath the clever melodies that resound long after the show has ended lie brittle lyrics about surface relationship and about commitments...
...BESIDES the recurring flaw the show is entertaining clever staging devices abound on the two-tiered stage connected by two staircases. The lively dance routines by Scott Collishaw are simple but attractive, enabling the actors to sing clearly without getting out of breath. The choreography enhance the variety of musical genres explored through the how as does the wide range of melodies: The jazzy "Poor Baby" sung by the five wives conveys its sultriness through excellent harmonies, and the gospel choir effect in "I'm Getting Married displays another, more refined side of the actors voices...
...Clever, those television programmers. In the late 1970s they were among the last to discover that news is not just news, it is also (Lights! Cameras! Banter!) entertainment. So if news can be entertainment, why not turn entertainment into news? Presto, Entertainment Tonight was born: news in form, entertainment in content, a TV hybrid. There may be no business like show business, but there's good business in show-business news...
...uninhibited acting is consistently excellent and the the show's tinning runs smoothly with live piano music as the transitions between the scenes. The costumes contribute to the quality in the level of acting with each actor wearing the same sexless outfit of lavender courderoy. Matching the clever costumes are the creative sets which use different props like toilet seats as chairs and chalkboards as windows using the chalk to draw the blinds...
...thousands of U.S. fans typically are Hispanic junior high schoolers, like the heartthrobs themselves: five Puerto Rican boys, ages 13 to 15. And menudo, which means "small change" in Spanish, is not really a band or even, to use the '60s phrase, a combo. It is a clever marketing idea: the boys are mere employees of a promoter who replaces each one before he turns 16. "Menudo is a formula, and we must take care not to break it," says Edgardo Díaz, 31, Menudo's inventor and honcho, who manages to seem both cynical and ingenuous...