Word: diva
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...Gilbert's candybox-pretty score into swing, jazz and gospel arrangements that bounce like the 1940s. Lyrically, they will ask themselves which is worse, rewriting some of Arthur Sullivan's urbane verse (one big laugh comes when Katisha, a scorned lady of the court played as a black street diva by Loretta Devine, screeches, "You piss me off!") or rendering much of what is left all but unintelligible through vocal pyrotechnics and general high spirits from a decidedly multicultural cast...
...What I don't understand about the press in general is a kind of contempt for the facts," she says. "To propagate the myth of the diva is so simplistic. It's a very simplistic way to look at people. The power of the printed word is black and white, but people are many shades of gray. They can't quite understand how I could be a so-called powerful woman and yet be frightened, let's say. It's like they don't go together. It's too complex...
...Vegas show logged in 60 hours of orchestra rehearsal time, and says Streisand, unlike most singers, was present for almost every minute. Lyricist Marilyn Bergman, who with her partner and husband Alan helped write the script for Streisand's stage show, scoffs at her reputation as a difficult diva. "Barbra never says, 'That's good enough.' People who don't understand or appreciate this process might find it threatening or tiresome. But she is indefatigable...
...clambake to the fairground fantasy of the title, this production entrancingly conjures iconic places of bygone mill-town New England with expressionistic verve and cinematic speed of transition. The actors are adequate, save for irksome mugging by the chorus, and the singing is mostly fine, with opera diva Shirley Verrett gloriously belting the score's two standards, June Is Bustin' Out All Over and You'll Never Walk Alone. The dances by Sir Kenneth MacMillan, who died during rehearsals, are bold and lively, although they bring the storytelling to a halt. The race-blind casting, if historically inaccurate, does...
...Accompanist" is another French film featuring voyeurism and a diva, but with a twist. Seducing the audience with vibrant singing, the film suggests that voyeur and diva are not inherently dissimilar, but are separated by the constraints of nature and circumstance...