Word: lyricizing
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...holistic swoosh." The author of Lord Byron's Doctor gives his own case the Byronic treatment. "From my first chemistry set, I knew that I was an experiment too ... I walked and breathed immersed in a world not mine, not made of me" is a fair sample of his lyric urges. West's prose thrives on making connections: the interactions of hospital gadgetry with his own balky machinery; or how a late Beethoven quartet integrates opposing moods. West lists those moods as bold, mutinous, euphoric, sedate and restive, which add up to a pretty good description of his book...
...Boston Lyric's latest operatic offering is "operatic" only in that it is as long as Wagner and as contrived as any opera plot. The cast's energetic efforts and the show's polished appearance (forget about the bare bulbs and peeling paint) redeem the score's failings...
...mystery. Nevertheless, this uppity anthem has lost none of its punch, as it tells the story of a man drinking and drugging a woman off his mind. Hardly the portrait of a healthy relationship, the tune is a perfect setting for Hooker to croon the lyric, "sitting here drinking/ getting stoned/ yeah, yeah," with all the conviction of a man who has lived and sung the blues for more than fifty years...
...Ideal Husband. Through March 12. Lyric Stage, 140 Clarendon St., Boston. 437-7172. A rarely produced farce by Oscar Wilde, the play was dedicated to Victorian publisher and pornographer Frank Harris...
...less impressive are Wolfe and Goor as her children. As the weather-obsessed Susannah, Wolfe gives a gracefully subtle performance, avoiding edgy fanaticism to render her apocalyptic yearnings as lyric. Goor's Andrew, home from the Gulf War, is shellacked in gold, silent and frozen. When he launches vigorously into a tightly woven monologue about the bliss and religious rapture of bombing Baghdad, he is both uncompromisingly hysterical and profound...