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SMALL FACTORY I Do Not Love You CD/LP (spinArt) Small Factory are on America's longest-running sugar high. The Providence, R.I., trio used to bounce onstage with what looked like a miked acoustic guitar and an acoustic bass guitar, perfectly suited to the clean sound, rapid strum and deliberately...
The essence of the road show, however, is a touring version of a work that is already firmly established on Broadway or that recently closed. Almost all tours are of musicals, although the comedies I'm Not Rappaport and Social Security played across the nation into the summer. For audiences...
But most impressive are the Wild Things. Standing nine to twelve feet tall and made of Lycra, a synthetic fabric, stretched over an aluminum frame and adorned with yak hair, they are remarkably lifelike and utterly faithful to Sendak's vision. Actors inside the costumes manipulate the mouths and arms...
There probably would be less complaint if amplification were not so apparent-and so annoying. But it usually is both. The sound system of the 1978 Eartha Kitt musical Timbuktu! sounded like a tinny radio with failing batteries. The Pirates of Penzance, which has a better system, is nonetheless obviously...
Let me conclude with two warnings. First: the version of The Sleeping, Car Murder being shown in Boston is dubbed-rather well dubbed, actually (the speakers can act rather than just read, and the dialogue sounds fairly natural) but dubbed all the same. The voices are subtly inappropriate, the speakers...