Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WHERE: LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO...
THIS IS A LOVE SONG, OF COURSE. Aladdin the street rat is taking Princess Jasmine on a flight into the liberating skyland of first love. But the Tim Rice lyric, riding the lush carpet of Alan Menken's melody, also defines the sorcery of movie animation. Artists wave the wand of a pencil over a piece of paper and, like the most genial genie, create unbelievable sights, indescribable feelings. "Don't you dare close your eyes!/ A hundred thousand things to see!/ Hold your breath, it gets better...
There was one recent hit that I simply had to try out for a Harvard fight song; the title was just asking for it. I discovered that with a little lyric-tampering, Harvard could become the only institution of higher learning with a school song that promotes slam-dancing...
...Lyric Stage...
...phone conversations between Prince and an intrepid reporter named Vanessa Bartholomew, sportingly played by Cheers TV star Kirstie Alley. "Why do you pretend to be a maze?" she asks in exasperation. "I'm amazed at your beauty," Prince replies. But his real answer seems to be in the lyric of My Name Is Prince, in which he declares, "I know from righteous I know from sin/ I got two sides and they're both friends...