Word: schommer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best songs came out sounding ridiculously perfect, luminous in their wit and dazzling in their style. To come across right, they have to be done almost perfectly, too: unstylish style just comes out sounding like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh--a bit like Paul Schommer's orchestra through much of the Loeb's Kiss Me Kate...
Although the singing doesn't always warrant the effort, special credit should go to Paul Schommer's orchestra for accomplishing the difficult feat of keeping the music at the right volume. Choreographer Ricardo and those four charcoal grey executives a glorious sense of the absurd, prancing around the stage in the Act One showstopper: "Where Do You Take a Girl...
...later so Ruby can take her place--who's been ravenously pursuing him. When Ruby breaks into a mournful little number called "Raining in My Heart," the rest of the cast comes out to dance around her in plastic raincoats and transparent umbrellas. The music, ably conducted by Paul Schommer from the piano, has quite enough life to get through the show, though probably not enough to survive...
...Atmosphere" excepted) fails to equal his direction: it's stodgy and underdeveloped, even within the limitations of the Agassiz's stage. And Marshall Pihl's set--although it boasts a revolving center--is not what you call inspired. But I think I'll choose instead to end with Paul Schommer's musical direction, which, to my untutored ear, handles well the supple score, maintaining a nice balance between its melodic strings and mellow horns...