Word: frisson
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...multiple actors in some parts gives the show a stylized universality. Near the end of one song, Waitin' for the Light to Shine, the orchestra suddenly stops for a few bars as the actors continue signing--a jab of silence that gives the hearing audience a chilling frisson in a rare show that can truly be called groundbreaking. --By Richard Zoglin. Reported by Molly Worthen
...woman stage adaptation of Allan Gurganus' best-selling novel, which had its world premiere at San Diego's Old Globe Theater. She was still stumbling a bit (engagingly, catching herself with a casual "I mean ...") as she tried to master the demanding part, but audiences had the frisson of being present at the development of what may (when the show comes to Broadway this fall) turn out to be one of the great stage roles...
...Snoop if O.J. was innocent or guilty, or ask rap mogul Master P if he'd let his 13-year-old son - rapper Lil' Romeo - sleep at Michael Jackson's house. (Yes, there's a pattern here; much, maybe too much, of Kimmel's humor is about the frisson of a white boy going one-on-one with big, scary rappers.) It's not always comfortable, and some night it may all blow up on him. But that's a good reason to watch. A bad talk-show host, it turns out, is not such a bad thing...
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