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Rahmaniacs will regret the jettisoning of half a dozen solid tunes from the original. (Three songs have been added.) Hardened Broadway regulars may find the show splashy but naive. Still, anyone with half an ear will hear the most vibrant, varied new score in ages. They will leave Bombay Dreams humming Rahman's songs and singing his praises. Broadway, meet Bollywood...
...perils of being close to home crept in on the band, as at one point an audience member familiar with subjects of a song yelled something alluding to a specific romance that caught Barlow’s ear. This came from the same part of the audience that had been yelling about Barlow and Loewenstein’s frequent breaks to retune—many of the songs were in alternate tunings—and their absent human drummer. Barlow, the king of cool, brushed off these comments (and those about Mascis made during and after...
...Webber is taking a little risk: a $14 million musical with unknown actors, an unfamiliar foreign milieu and a who-he? composer. Still, anyone with half an ear will hear the most vibrant, varied new score in ages. Audiences will walk out of Bombay Dreams humming Rahman's songs and singing his praises. If music is the crucial part of a musical, then Rahman's genius will ensure that Bollywood conquers Broadway...
...President is a compelling presence in this book, as he was in Woodward's last. He fairly leaps off the page, brisk and unflappable. It is difficult to know how accurate this portrait is, and how much of it consists of sweet nothings whispered into the author's ear by loyal retainers. I suspect the Woody Allen and Joe Public stories are true. They are moments when the curtain of platitudes is parted and the quality of Bush's sensibility is revealed. I also suspect the larger picture-the world as seen from the West Wing bunker-is distressingly accurate...
...after the soul singer who had once used it. As the political consultants and managers frantically tried to figure out what Dean should say to accept his caucus defeat, O’Mary was already on the next step, pacing back and forth with his cell phone at his ear...