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Echo (Eliza Dushku) has an endlessly challenging job. On one assignment, she might play a hostage negotiator; on another, a midwife; on still another, a woman in love. Then she gets chauffeured to a treatment at a spalike facility filled with warm light and blond wood. It's a little like being a Hollywood actress on location...
...reality or a dream. As he wanders through the labyrinthine catacombs of his university library, strange apparitions—phantasms, childhood memories and the Jew of Malta, among others—haunt his steps and agitate his research in compiling a biography of... himself. Circumstances run afoul when his love interest, a buxom barista with retrograde amnesia, begins to suspect that the protagonist has been brainwashed to murder his own father. Elsewhere, a cabal of petit bourgeoise candle manufacturers study the cryptic final notations of a reclusive poet-sage in search for the last prophecy of the Knights Templar. Laughter...
...title song, “Working on a Dream,” is uplifting and embodies the spirit of optimism that is prevalent throughout the album. Springsteen sings, “Though it can feel so far away / I’m working on a dream / And our love will make it real someday.” Throughout the album, Springsteen largely alternates between getting his rock on and slowing down for a softer feel. Like on Springsteen’s previous album “Magic,” the E Street Band is much more prevalent and fleshes...
...band’s preconditions—the music never aspires to anything so much as it expects listeners to aspire to the music. Submerged in a seamless ocean of arpeggiated electronic sound, the album affects a reoccurring cycle of freak-pop whose contours range from low-end love songs to psychedelic-dance.The album’s ambitious opener sets the tone. “In The Flowers” seems to emerge from outer space, with Portner’s vocals fading in and out over various layers of keyboard sound, before blossoming all at once into a percussive, anthemic...
...opera’ heroine,” she said.Schlitz also enjoyed portraying a character with an emotional range that was malleable from the show’s start to finish. “Anne starts out very young and naïve, and she believes that love is going to conquer everything,” Schlitz said. “[But] in this production, she has a lot of strength and comes into her own by the end.” Unlike the straightforward and approachable libretto, many still regard the music itself as a significant challenge for the performers...