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Attending Witness for the Prosecution is about as fun as serving jury duty. In this faithful production of Agatha Christie's humdrum courtroom drama, the audience is asked to sit through a lengthy and primarily uneventful murder trial. Similar to real-life jury duty, the brightest moment of the play comes in the end when a verdict is announced and the plot, finally, twists...
...earnest, serviceable yet rarely stirring and almost never believable. It's never outright bad, it's occasionally funny, and twice -- when Peters sings the self-help anthem How Can I Win? and when Short courts her on a rooftop -- it's thrilling. But most of the craftsmanship is humdrum. The narrative lacks suspense and liberating flights of fancy. The production has no style, no look, no distinctive flavor or texture or sound. And it constantly brings to mind better shows: a transvestite Richard III pales beside the Crummles troupe in Nicholas Nickleby; dancers costumed as forbidden foods...
...wintry sun sinks, Armenia's capital takes on the eerie cast of a medieval town under siege. Life in Yerevan has reeled backward, like a grainy black-and-white film, toward a barbaric era of ethnic and religious war -- an apocalyptic time when death becomes humdrum, the threat of disease is ever present, and nothing matters but daily, primal survival...
Harvard recorded its first shutout in The Game since 1966. The win banished Yale to a seventh-place tie with Columbia and moved the Crimson into fourth. A depressing, humdrum season of blowouts and shellackings faded into memory as crazed Harvard students frantically mobbed the Crimson football players and desperately tried to bring down the goalposts...
...despite the pretense, Gabriel's early solo songs were brilliant. "Humdrum" is set to accompany Gabriel's aesthetically pleasant, if vague, worldview: "As a bull, so a dove; as below, so above." His "Family Snapshot" painted a sympathetic musical picture of a Lee Harvey Oswald so tormented by his upbringing that he had to shoot a president...