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...worship Eva Peron inspires is eerily reminiscent of fascism--the crowd chants "Pe-ron" over and over again--and Rebecca Shannon's excellent choreography heightens the resemblance by having chorus members thrust their arms out in rhythmic salutes. Shannon also makes good use of the Mainstage's ample space, as she balances different groups off one another. In "Peron's Latest Flame," for example, the aristocrats step lightly and delicately, tilting their cigarette holders in disgust, while the military men stomp across the stage swinging their arms...
...worthy cause. What, after all, is the American musical but a transatlantic cousin of the Viennese operetta whose patrimony also includes the harmonic and rhythmic vitality of jazz? The line from Johann Strauss and Franz Lehar to Frederick Loewe and Richard Rodgers is really very short. Far from being an exotic and irrational entertainment, opera is the most vital and popular of musical forms. Is Mozart's The Magic Flute, composed in the vernacular for the Viennese commercial theater, stuffy high art just because it is 200 years old and occasionally performed at the Met? That would be news...
...UB40's sun-splashed funk, as long as listeners follow its affable lead and plunge into such originals as Sing Our Own Song (on the 1986 LP Rat in the Kitchen) or Dance with the Devil on the most recent album. It is on those tunes, righteous and rhythmic, that the band really proves itself. Red Red Wine may be a good song to hang your hat on, but on a UB40 tune like Sing, a band could proudly stake a reputation...
...admirer of "that kind of drone quality" that was the rhythmic core of the Velvet Underground, Mercer works on Feelies material at home, on his own, then brings it in for his four partners to "mold to the melody." "Glenn writes the lyrics, though," says Million. "We don't ask him what they mean." Witty and oblique, as if they just slid off the edge of a tilted brainpan, the lyrics snuggle into niches tucked neatly inside the guitar- fueled rhythms that sound like rock for a trance state...
Octophiles were transfixed last week when the second Monday of this month produced the rhythmic four-digit 8-8-88. Gamblers bet on the numeral, and some came up lucky, albeit a little bit late. Three straight eights topped the New York State lottery on -- sorry -- the ninth day of August, and 10,000 bettors who kept the faith for 24 hours will divide $6 million...