Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Japan reinvents the sing-along...
...gruff song-speech of Jeremy Geidt. And while the dancing is not going to put Tommy Tune out of work, there are some fine numbers, including an amusingly effeminate soft-shoe by Harry S. Murphy ("Dear Old Syracuse"), a terrific trio by Susan Larson, Karen MacDonald, and Marianne Owen ("Sing For Your Supper"), and a hilariously frantic improvisation by Thomas Derrah at the close...
...Love Monsters really don't want to leave. "All I can do is kiss away the tears," they sing over and over again. But the dancers need a break, and Commissioner Gordon, the second of the three bands, needs time...
...Anderson's targets are largely conventional-the despoiling of the environment, the horrors of war-her methods are not. A voice-activated synthesizer called a Vocoder allows her to speak and sing in chords. Her violin bow has prerecorded tape where the hairs should be, and is drawn across a tape playback head on the instrument's bridge, enabling the violin to "speak." Her back-up band includes saxophones, amplified drums and synthesizer, even a jazz bagpiper. Films and slides are projected onto a giant screen, to reinforce and complement the sense of the words. It could...
...somehow the interior of the Charles Playhouse expands. It has to, to accomodate the exuberance of Godspell actors and actresses. As they march out into the aisles to sing and clap their way through "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord," the entire house shakes--except for buoying waves of enthusiasm, the roof might have collapsed long...