Word: evitas
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...some of these tracks is the magic ingredient that keeps the musical souffle from falling. For example, in "Don't Cry For Me Argentina," her approach is almost timid. She floats over the notes instead of taking them by the throat in her usual manner. But hey, this is Evita we're talking about. Everyone knows Evita (there's a picture of Andrew Lloyd Weber in the dictionary next to "cultural literacy"). And it's still Sinead! "I Want to Be Loved By You" contains a real lyrical bon-bon, Sinead O'Connor singing...
...grasped the concept of dead oceans. American Perot-nistas bear a superficial resemblance to the Argentine variety. What we have here is a strongman, a right-wing populist: no party, no program -- just a cult of personality. All he needs now is an Evita...
Past Lloyd Webber extravaganzas concerned animals (Cats), machines (Starlight Express), wraiths (The Phantom of the Opera), icons (Evita) and divinities (Jesus Christ Superstar). His delicate and intimate new work, adapted from a 1955 novel by Britain's David Garnett, is about ordinary human beings learning life's painful lessons. The affections on display include the parental, filial and fraternal; but the emphasis is on the romantic, which takes place mostly between partners of unlike ages and is presented as primarily a process of teaching. Events are often melodramatic, but the tone is rueful and autumnal. From the opening moment...
MANDY PATINKIN IN CONCERT: DRESS CASUAL. The edgy, high-energy star of stage (Evita) and film (Yentl) thrills Broadway with a brilliantly idiosyncratic styling of ballad and show tunes...
...Like Evita's tour, Bush's own "triumphant" tour of Eastern and Western Europe was just as rhetorical, just as optimistic and just as indicative of his relative lack of power in the world political scene...