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...astonishment are the orders of the day. In Pennsylvania, Nigel sits in on a college history class, only to find that the topic under discussion is how to cope with two children and a divorce. Adam, for his part, can only listen in bemusement as a woman named Ira Funk whisks him through her architectural folly in Venice, Calif., chuckling, "Those Tudors just could never have dreamed up even one small bit of this." The meeting of John Doe and John Bull is frequently incongruous. " 'What's the matter, Baby,' a nun with a beard and sparkle all over...
When its elaborately contoured three-story set is lit up like a giant pinball machine, its 60-ft. suspended bridge is rotating in open air, its funk-rock score is blasting so loudly that it vibrates spectators right out of their chairs, and its 27-member cast is whizzing by on roller skates at speeds of up to 30 m.p.h., attired in what looks like a cross between medieval jousting costumes and high-tech robot gear, Starlight Express is surely one of the most astonishing spectacles in the annals of the stage. If likely to baffle and frustrate regular theatergoers...
Hamnett, 39, has a deft hand for funk, and her clothes for men and women look lived-in even when they are freshly pressed, like something hung on a wooden peg behind the back door. She works largely and most successfully in utilitarian fabrics: cotton drill, lining silk and, for the coming season, leather that seems to have been ridden over by a motorcycle gang on a rainy Sunday. Her lines are loose and simple, the detailing fine and witty and heavy on the pockets. The clothes are not remakes of hardy perennials like parkas and biker jackets, but revisions...
...style. This record, first released in 1975, has now been reissued on CD. The disc, with the good professor's piano remixed to stand way out in front of the band, is a perfect introduction to Longhair's eldritch dexterity. It is also as good a working definition of funk as you will ever find. The professor died in 1980, but there is a whole generation of peerless piano players, like Huey ("Piano") Smith, Allen Toussaint and Mac ("Dr. John") Rebennack, forever in his debt. He was the tap source of New Orleans rock...
...NEVILLE BROTHERS: Treacherous. (Rhino) These four, New Orleans funk masters to the manner born, are heirs to the proud Byrd tradition. This two- record set covers 30 years of their music, starting with a rough-and-ready Mardi Gras Mambo (released in 1955) and ending with a spirited spiritual recessional recorded in the spring of 1985. New Orleans produced many superb musicians and singers, but the Nevilles are the town's premier vocal ensemble. A single cut, Fire on the Bayou, is like a dancing flame on an oil slick. It produces enough heat to warm a mountain cabin...