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...tell you stories of an angst-ridden childhood. She can't tell you how she published her first lyric at the age of six, or how she struck out on her own after kindergarten, or how she spent her adolescence in a suburban wasteland, misunderstood by her peers. Though she's a poet and, she admits, most poets come from such dramatic beginnings, Tracy K. Smith '94 never enjoyed these fruits of misery...
Ellison met her future husband John Ellison '44a senior in Robert Hillier's lyric poetry class,when they studied together for the final. He gotan...
Most of the songs in My favorite Year are blatant rip-offs of other, more famous, numbers from other, better-written, shows. While Flaherty's music is more boring than bad, Ahrens' lyrics are unremittingly awful. The tag line of "Everything Was Beautiful at the Ballet"-- whoops, I mean "Larger than Life"-- for example, is "Gee, he was bigger and better and larger than life." The by-the-numbers finale (called, of course, "My Favorite Year") includes the profound lyric "you could cross a bridge and not have it burn/someone leaving your life could also return...
Adjaffi shows surprising versatility in his musical style and the use of his vocal talent, but his lyrics often seem simplistic. "Michelle" is the best-arranged song with the most catchy riff, but the lyrics lack depth. In "Power of Love," Adjaffi message also seems simplistic: "The power of love can touch you everywhere, can put you up in the sky." But poor lyrics never hurt Steve Miller and besides, Adjaffi shows lyric promise on "Great Cathedral" and "Tears of the Children" which belie his otherwise apolitical message...
Nevertheless, the Lyric Stage's production of My Astonishing Self comes wonderfully close to creating coherent and interesting fare out of a standard retelling of the main events Shaw's career. The play would probably be most entertaining, however, for those who do not know very much about the general life and times of GBS, since Michael Voysey's script and Donal Donnelley's acting will probably not tend gel nicely with a pre-existing mental Shaw...