Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peter Fonda started out with handle bars; now he's into musical bars. The easy rider makes his singing debut in the film Outlaw Blues as an ex-con-turned-songwriter who hooks up with a pretty country-and-western singer (Susan St. James). Prior crooning credentials of the...
Ravenal's script and David Zippel's lyrics litter the biblical myth of creation with the world of cliches that has since accumulated around the lives of men and women. The primeval couple of this musical are jaded about the facts of life before they've even had any practice...
The musical attempts a whimsically feminist revision of the story of original sin. But since feminism can be as conventional as sexism, the whimsey--rather than the protest against the myth's male bias--wins out. The notion that God might be a she instead of a he is amusing...
If woman's will pervades SIN--the first show by a Radcliffe undergraduate to be mounted at the Loeb--it is in the person, rather than the role, of Ravenal. She lends Eve assertive and wistful self-consciousness simultaneously. Hers is the only voice that distinguishes the musical score, with...
Musical Saw. Star-Child was composed on a Ford Foundation grant for the Philharmonic and for Irene Gubrud, who sang the soprano part splendidly while supported by crutches (be cause of an old back injury). The score is Crumb's first for full orchestra since Echoes of Time and...