Word: poignant
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That they succeed and keep the evening constantly entertaining, conveying all of the play’s themes and clearly getting Sondheim’s often difficult lyrics across, is a tribute to their individual talent and collective chemistry. One wishes such a poignant piece of theater receive a larger, more elaborate production, but for the Pool, the show is a strong offering, and the leads make it all worthwhile. To paraphrase a lyric from the show—here’s to them, who’s like them, damn...
...build great flights of fancy. Pianist Israel Tannenbaum played an almost ironic performance, leaping up and down the keyboard in vertical chords under the effigy of Lester Young, a soloist renowned for his horizontal and compressed playing. Tannenbaum also contributed one of the evening’s more poignant moments, a fractured version of “Happy Birthday” before the band gave it an abbreviated dirty funk treatment. Eguie Castrillo occupied a middle space on the congas, sometimes meshing with the rest of the rhythm section’s ideals, but at other times, seeming almost...
Like most good memoirs of childhood, Swimming Across has the poignant clarity of a child too young to have illusions. What is, is--and is seen with wondering ruthlessness. The son of nonreligious Jews, Andris, whose father was a partner in a dairy business, first shows himself to the reader on his third birthday, Sept. 2, 1939, scooting in a new toy car along the promenade on the banks of the Danube. Grove does not mention that one day earlier, Hitler had invaded Poland...
...reality endures even after dreams fade away. Though the production does not always make its points in a clear fashion, which is vital to maintaining interest and understanding with such a difficult piece of work, the quality of the individual performances helps this Three Sisters achieve much of the poignant beauty of Chekhov’s words...
...showcases the pair’s unique sense of humor. The twosome manage to be inventively humorous and avoid becoming purely a joke. One of the better songs on the album, entitled “J,” deals with jealousy of a former girlfriend in a wryly poignant manner. It is unclear if Little-T and One Track Mike can maintain their street-smart and playful songs in the future. Similar groups, such as the the Presidents of the United States and the aforementioned Skee-Lo, have been unable to sustain the same level of creativity (and popularity...