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Widowers' House: By George Bernard Shaw presented by Lyric Stage. Through Oct.27, with performances Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 5pm and 8:30pm, and Sundays at 3pm. Info call 742-8703. Lyric Stage, 54 Charles Street...
...expressionism" was the buzz word for this kind of art, and, for a while, it might have been carpentered onto the Heads' music as well. African rhythm stacked up against Motown, and 42nd Street funk against the ozone background musings of Rock Minimalist Brian Eno, all set under lyric passages that seemed like exercises in concretist hysteria. Byrne cooked up a homicidal maniac who talked to himself in French. "Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est" was the refrain of the first big- time song he ever wrote. Funny and frightening, it set the band off on a nicely...
...Sears now carry models in their catalogs. Karaokes, which range from $150 to $2,500, incorporate a cassette player, loudspeaker and microphone in a single unit. All a budding balladeer need do is adjust a few simple controls, start the tape of background music and sing along with the lyric sheet. Thousands of pop songs, from Rock of Ages to Jump, are available...
...folks who neither know nor care what musical produced the tunes. Yet Kern realized better than anyone else that the melodic drama in so many of his songs -- of which the majestic cresting chorus of Ol' Man River is the most famous example -- demanded a dramatic anchor only the lyric theater could provide. Of the thousand or so songs he composed, the only familiar one not written for a show or movie was The Last Time I Saw Paris. He mercilessly cut any song that did not fit its situation. Conversely, he was a great hoarder and tinkerer. Alter just...
...with satiric snippets depicting how that rhetoric translates into the raunch and squalor of an anonymous sexual underworld. The supporting cast all play multiple roles; Ken Kliban and Lily Knight are especially effective as an AIDS victim's estranged straight brother and tolerant chum. Hoffman has written rich, lyric dialogue for the leads: a budding writer (Jonathan Hogan) who is diagnosed as having the disease, and a former lover (Jonathan Hadary) who takes him back "as is" to nurse him. During the play's earlier off-Broadway run, Hadary played the lover as a near saint, but has now toned...