Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Paul Dovell, John Dragonetti, Paul Gettinger, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Mark P. Polomski, Lois Rubenstein, Jacqueline Shubitowski, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton, Simon Tack, Paul White...
...MACGUFFIN by Stanley Elkin (Simon & Schuster; 283 pages; $19.95). Bobbo Druff, 58, is a washed-up pol serving time as city commissioner of streets in a minor-league U.S. metropolis. His wife of 36 years is going deaf; his son Mikey, 30, still lives at home; and his health -- after a heart bypass, four instances of a collapsed lung and extensive circulatory problems in his legs -- is not robust. Understandably he concludes that the "world is getting away from me, I think...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Paul Dovell, John Dragonetti, Paul Gettinger, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Mark P. Polomski, Lois Rubenstein, Jacqueline Shubitowski, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton, Simon Tack, Paul White...
...opening number, Paul Simon's "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, was sung too low for Nara Garber's lead, making the much anticipated start anticlimactic. And the Callbacks's rendition of the Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love," despite humorous staging, died in the middle of the song and then dragged on uncomfortably. Other songs, such as "Human Nature," featured strong lead vocals but soon grew tire-some. This was more a reflection of the songs themselves than the way they were performed...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Paul Dovell, John Dragonetti, Paul Gettinger, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Mark P. Polomski, Lois Rubenstein, Jacqueline Shubitowski, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton, Simon Tack, Paul White...