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...RAWE AND Jennifer Way duet to two Joplin rags and Mozart's twelve variations on "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" in "The Rags Suite" (1972). Able to tie knots around the music's rhythm, the two are unable to embrace, botching several attempts, although at the end they do waltz (out of kilter) in their elegant white dress. Tharp connects each dancer's deep-down motor to his outside being, transforming the motor's violent churnings into zips of energy across the body--an odd metaphor for inside jitters...
...actor comes anywhere near matching Minahan's energy, and only Mark Kiely as Jerry, Georgie's father, plays his role in a similarly broad comic vein. Sometimes slightly wooden, Kiely overuses his eyebrows for comic effect, but he teams convincingly with Minahan in numbers like the superbly executed Irish duet "Harrigan...
...hard not to laugh at some of Hope's songs. After all, a can-can and an Andrews Sisters number and an Astair/Rogers duet could not be more out of place in a nineteenth century saloon. But some of Hope's number breech the gap between hoedown and courtroom lingo to produce some genuinely humorous lines...
...could "go back" to Sieglinde's gentler music. Like some fabulous Ring character, Nilsson is a kind of vocal amphibian who can exist in both past and present. At times there was an eerie suggestion that one was hearing the young Nilsson. In the famous first-act duet with Siegmund (Jon Vickers), she was translucid as a lover, exalted on learning that he is also her lost twin. Nilsson never makes a meaningless gesture. She touched Siegmund almost at once-tentative, exploring-like an emotionally blinded woman. After the first act there are no more visions of a laughing...
Phillip laZebnik's lyrics are at their best sublimely witty in the tradition of Noel Coward. Cole Porter and Tom Lehrer. "We'll be the perfect duet Two mouths sucking the same Sucret." "Call up Ronald Reagan and ask for my Friend Flicka." There are ten songs in the long first act, and nine in the second act, which is only 40 per cent as long. Some of these--"Power to Persuade" and "Team Song are the standouts--are clearly what makes the second act so much tighter than the first. The script is not quite funny enough--though...