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...Frank Sinatra...
...years Frank Sinatra has won an enthusiastic following among college students through no effort of his own. Usually, young people start listening to him because they find his Rat Pack cool campily appealing, but ironic condescension soon turns to true admiration of his talent. Even though it's not really necessary for Sinatra's handlers to market him to the kids, they have done so anyway. Last year, notably, he was paired on Duets with Bono, Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin and other younger-than-Frank performers...
...Duets II, a less engaging sequel, has appeared. While Sinatra is in good form, his collaborators seem too desperate to impress him. Jon Secada, for example, tries to replicate his partner's range and intensity on The Best Is Yet to Come, but he doesn't come close. Luis Miguel attempts Come Fly with Me with a swinginess that is contrived and tentative. And Chrissie Hynde succumbs to an offputting Edith Piaf impression during Luck Be a Lady...
Even before the play begins, and as people are taking their seats, catchy tunes by female singers are piped in. This leads audience members to become so comfortable that they sing along, especially for a tune like Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots are Made for Walkin." Similarly, at the end of the performance, when the actors have disrobed and are standing in their bras and underwear dancing and bobbing around to Cindy Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," the theater is transformed into a party...
...Connor has already gone way past outspoken. Since releasing her first album in 1987, she has ripped up a picture of the Pope on national TV, engaged in a war of words with Frank Sinatra and accused her mother of stomping on her belly to try to burst her uterus. But her controversies do seem to make her music all the more varied and pungent, and no one can dispute that O'Connor has an astonishing voice. Her new album, Universal Mother, starts not a little acrimoniously with the grinding, pulsating Fire on Babylon, in which the singer again attacks...