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Depeche Mode's rare appearance at the Orpheum a few months back was a pretty depressing affair if you weren't looking for a high school pick-up. With most of the musical action programmed into the array of synthesizers and organs, vocalist Gore was left prancing about like a second-string Rod Stewart, with material that could never approach the Rod's exquisitely terrible haunchraunch. The rest of the band was strapped to their machinery, tapping out melodies with one, two, and sometimes even three fingers. Depeche Mode gave good beat, but in a frenetic concert atmosphere pumped...
Until then, the place to be will be the Orpheum Theater, which will feature a steady stream of popular progressive bands, starting with King Crimson (July 5) and psychedelic Furs (July 18), and R.E.M. (July...
Several other places deserve mention as well. The Orpheum, a first-rate hall for about 3000, is bringing the Tubes and Joan Armatrading to town. And there's series of open-air concerts on the Boston Common, including Chicago, Linda Ronstadt, and a not to be missed evening with Mr. "Sexual Healing" himself, Marvin Gaye. And down near the beach at the Cape Cod Glesium huge sweat that it is, Elvis Costello is scheduled for August. Tickets have been on sale for a few months, so you may well be out of luck But if you cross your fingers...
...Question 3, a ringing affirmative. The tiny stage of off-Broadway's Orpheum Theater is apulse with the engaging beat of Alan Menken's pastiche of infant rock 'n' roll. Librettist-Lyricist Howard Ashman has adhered to Griffith's plot with becoming fidelity, while sending it up by adding a funky chorus of observers: three black girl singers in tight skirts and tighter harmonies. In the show Audrey Jr. is Audrey II, and at the outset is a tiny terror: Pac-Man's mean mutant brother. By the show's climax, it envelops...
...power. In her solo, Somewhere That's Green, in which she dreams of a home with every consumer cliche the '50s could offer, and in her second-act duet with Wilkof, she proves that Ellen Greene, not Audrey II, is the wildest force of nature on the Orpheum stage. With her signal help, Little Shop answers the question: Can trash material be transformed into a funny, classy night at the theater? This trash...