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...greatest hurdle for any production of Superstar is the material itself. The show is less theater than song cycle, a collection of simple pop-inspired numbers that are memorable only for the wrong reasons. The exhilarating score, at the time of its debut, excited hope in the theater community that Andrew Lloyd Webber could turn out to be a great talent, but it also reminds us of the disappointment of his subsequent work, which has failed to transcend Superstar's artlessness. Tim Rice's lyrics are even worse: they consist of a series of sentimental clichs liberally scattered with forced...

Author: By Dan L. Wagner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: All That Buzz: the Son of God in Song and Dance | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...expected, the three newcomers who make up C.O.G. get a little help from their more experienced friends. Several of their self-title debut's 15 tracks feature better-known artists like Soultre, Mack 10, Juvenile and BG. Unfortunately, there is little that any of them can do to help the Chilldrin's situation. While C.O.G. has the lingo and feel of urban America, there is little beneath the surface. The album is a blur of repetitive basslines that bleed from one track to the next; the rhymes are lousy, and the braggadocio and self-references that make contemporary rap such...

Author: By John A. Burton, | Title: Album Review: Chilldrin of da Ghetto | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

Also freshman winger Kalen Ingram will be making her debut for Harvard this weekend--she joins the team late due to field hockey's extended season...

Author: By Maureen B. Shannon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Cat Scratch Fever | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...Bennett '00, half of the band North House, you'd never suppose him to be the talented, impulsively bluesy singer/guitarist he is. Soft-spoken and polite, looking like an ad for Structure's fall line, he sits calmly at his first interview since the release of North House's debut album, Two Stories, which he co-produced with Becky Warren (Wellesley '00), the other half of North House...

Author: By Myung Joh, Jennifer Liao, and Dan L. Wagner, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Finding Release | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...After hearing that Al Bennett '00 and Becky Warren (a Wellesley senior) produced their debut album, Two Stories, by themselves, you may approach it rather warily. How good could a couple of college students possibly sound on a self-produced album...

Author: By Myung Joh, Jennifer Liao, and Dan L. Wagner, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Finding Release | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

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