Word: sing
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Giani also deals handily with a second problem often associated with productions of Superstar--the music is very difficult to sing. Webber and Rice write catchy tunes, but their use of demanding harmonies often results in offpitch notes from even good vocalists...
Luke couldn't sing one more song...
...problematic is Hancock's heavy-handed political rhetoric. There's a highly emotional scene in the play-within-a-movie where the ex-cons decry the fact that they are "victims of a capitalist society" and ask "Where are the big criminals?" But these are the same men who sing "I got things up my ass, I got things up my nose." It's funny, but it subverts the movie's well-touted "message...
...even in my disappointment, for a Series properly bathed in advocacy. And both the Tigers and the Giants blow it. What was I supposed to do? The Twins or the Cards? Who cares? How could I sing the fan's song in a strange land in a strange land of roofs and carpets...
...OPERA stars in The Mozart Brothers can certainly sing, but their performances are nothing to shout about. For instance, Ia (Agneta Ekmanner) overacts the hysterical woman even beyond the call of role and duty. And as Walter, Etienne Glaser lacks the intelligent aura his part requires. He can say, "In opera we are like silence in music," but it is neither profound nor comic. And the custodians and maids of the opera house flit across the screen just long enough to express their views...