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There's pro-consul Marc Anatomy (Thomas I. Parks '96), who travels to Egypt and falls in love with nymphomaniacal Queen Neferenuff (Michael A. Stone '95). There's Nefferenuff's court: tough Leda Uvdapak (Evan M. Sandman '96), pothead handmaiden Isis Melting (Harris Hartman '95), soothsayer Horace Cope (Mark H. Baskin '95), architect Ramses Pointakross (Mark R. Fish...
...strong voices makes the most of the music. Burlinson, as Medusa Pade, Stands, out in a sweet doo-wop number, "On the Inside." He gets great back-up, too, from his crooning fellow Egyptians. One of them, sandman as Leda Uvdapak, shines on his own in the gospel song "Amazon Grace." Stone vamps nicely in the torch song " Ancient History," though the orchestra sometimes drowns him out. The bigger numbers, too, sound as good as they look...
...boyfriends, drug busts and inexplicably dead celebrities. Dulcy is a repressed yet ambitious rock columnist who is so jittery and uptight that it's amazing she doesn't crack under all the pressure she experiences as she chases down an interview with the untalkative rock superstar, Linus Crump (Evan Sandman...
...Sandman, without question, steals the show as a music legend with clay feet. Linus Crump is a difficult role, probably the most complex in the play, and Sandman could easily have played the character as nothing more than an asshole. But he manages to humanize Linus, allowing the audience to actually empathize with a rich, spoiled rock star looking for a way to escape. Sandman provides a semi-serious counterpoint to Fortunato and Sun's comic antics...
...copies of its namesake album in the first week of its August release, every parent's worst nightmare has become a record executive's dream come true. Metallica entered Billboard's top-albums chart at No. 1 and stayed there for four weeks, spawning the hit single Enter Sandman. Even the critics are coming around. Rolling Stone awarded Metallica four stars in its review, calling it "an exemplary album of mature but still kickass rock & roll...