Word: mambazo
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Apart from this fault, the rest of the musical moves with as much grace and style as can be expected from a small-stage production. With music composed by the South African troupe Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the same group which recorded the album Graceland with Paul Simon, the show alternates between spoken dialogue and a cappella song...
Ladysmith Black Mambazo. SandersTheater, 4 p.m. $20 and $17. For more informationcall...
...deft direction and K. Todd Freeman's luminous acting of the title role, especially a final monologue in which he unsentimentally uncorks the rage that drove a minister's son to terrorism. What makes the show unique is the unearthly beauty of a capella songs by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the group highlighted on Paul Simon's Graceland album. The nine singers become a sort of Greek chorus and attain the dimensions of classical tragedy...
...spots of the evening were the James Bond medley--featuring one fiendishly memorable solo by Brian Martin in the theme song from "Goldfinger"--and the choreography for the one encore of the evening, "You Can Call Me Al"--which proved that the Dins can pat themselves like Ladysmith Black Mambazo...
Ladysmith Black Mambazo March 2 at the Somerville Theater...