Word: plot
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...opera all the players can actually sing. The majority of the cast deliver their "patter songs"--the quick-paced, witty recitatives that are the trademark of Gilbert and Sullivan operetta--with careful articulation of the words. This allows viewers who aren't familiar with the play to follow the plot and understand the jokes. Yamakawa and Rupp are more conventionally operatic singers. Yamakawa's solos are lovely, and the music occasionally surprises with its beauty, as in the grief-colored "merry madrigal" near the beginning...
...well-practiced virtuoso quality in A Certain Justice draws you into its foreboding atmosphere: "Has it ever occurred to you that a woman, when she is powerful, is more powerful than a man?" asks one of the suspects. The flowing prose often reaches its own stylistic climaxes, independent of plot events...
There are two major flaws that mar James' effort. First, there is the fact that Aldridge is such an unsympathetic character. She rants and raves, lies and deludes--we feel absolutely no remorse when she is killed. The ensuing investigation is satisfying only because of its many plot twists; finding justice for Aldridge's death seems the least important priority...
...could make circumstantial connections all day, but the fact is that in key aspects of character and plot, Interview With the Vampire and The Wings of the Dove spin strikingly similar stories. Sure, their twinship isn't biting anyone's neck just yet. Still, the similarities are telling and important, and all the more interesting for the fact that they are unlikely to receive much comment or notice...
Heck, six months ago My Best Friend's Wedding hit the jackpot with a plot about what?--a lovelorn, self-centered and gorgeous young woman who tries but fails to manipulate her friends into her own romantic designs. Imagine the profit jumps if they retitled the James adaptation My Best Friend's Dying...