Word: disco
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...Order, the shadowy British syntho-dance band, has always reveled in its contradictions. By melding the nihilistic mettle of punk with microchip magic and a populist disco beat, it has sold millions of records without losing its elitist mystique. Progressive dance-floor hits like 1983's Blue Monday made it possible to be cool while working up a sweat and anticipated the techno- industrial revolution, paving the way for groundbreaking groups such as Happy Mondays and Jesus Jones...
Back in the synthetic '70s, when disco and watered-down rock ruled the radio, a band called Steely Dan was making some of the most elegantly offbeat, wickedly incisive music ever to sneak onto the pop charts. Hits like Reeling in the Years and Rikki Don't Lose That Number were only the tip of the creative iceberg; beneath the taut tempos, cryptic lyrics and refreshingly unfamiliar melodies lurked an arcane, darkly sardonic intelligence summed up by the group's name, which was inspired by the moniker for a sexual appliance in William Burroughs' Naked Lunch...
Finally. Rock 'n' roll that means something again. What's Duran Duran doing + back on the charts anyway? Throw those pretty boys back into the junkyard of pop, along with disco, the lambada and the funky chicken. Here comes Irish rock, with Guinness on its breath and a union slogan on the tip of its tongue...
...spirit of the seventies, as well as the spirit of camp. In true (and false) for.n, its characters parade the carnival of artifice and wit. But the eighties are still with us. Toward the end of the first act, with delicious poise and speckled by light bouncing off a disco ball, Princess Diana Loneliness, played by Bart St. St. Clair, quips a triumphant line from Gloria Gaynor's classic " I Will Survive," which has taken on new and unforseen meanings in the era of AIDS...
...plot with exclusively male-female pairings and of never allowing two men actually to kiss on stage, Romancing the Throne can-kiss on stage, Romancing the Throne cannot conceal its gay reference: characters snap with the greatest of ease; dragons" lithsp; queens tirade about men and relationships; classic disco moments bellow from painted lips; and many other gay (in both sense of the world) moments percolate through the show. It's refreshing to know that--despite all the recent tensions around gay issues and despite the prevalence of AIDS--a vibrant torch can still light up the stage. We will...