Word: singeing
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...totally different set, totally different mood, in the 1920’s in a smoky, old bar.” The cast and crew are made up of around 75 people, with greatly varying levels of experience. “Our cast has all different singing and dancing and acting backgrounds, and they all came together and created this musical,” Richards explains. “And I think that, in itself, is a great accomplishment.” Another one of the strengths of the production, according to Richards, is the music. “It?...
...Christianity. “It’s an anthem for that loneliness we all feel,” he said. “I mean, we’re all angsty.” After a passionate defense of the power of God, supported by an N*Sync sing-along, the metaphorical train jumped its tracks to bring the point home. Quach, on God as compared to West Coast fast food chain In ‘N’ Out’s “Animal Style” burger: “[God] is my burger...
...silverback ape and Jon Stewart a sneaky hyena, Flight of the Conchords are tiny fawns. Their whimsical acoustic-guitar songs and gentle banter totter out on spindly legs to nibble at funny bones. The duo, who claim to be the "fourth most popular folk parodists in New Zealand," sing about the usual stuff--mistaken identity, killer robots, racist dragons--but with an earnest, blinking naivet. It's a hemisphere away from the witty social commentary that reigns on America's comedy circuit. "I guess we're kind of nerdy hipsters," says Bret McKenzie (except he pronounces it "nurdy hupstas"). Jemaine...
...television, it already has. American Idol, beneath the contestants' naked ambition and buckets of flop-sweat, and Simon Snide's eviscerating bitchiness, is reacquainting the country with its glorious musical past. One week, everyone must sing a Cole Porter tune; the next, '50s rock 'n roll is the genre. All right, the performers don't take their vocalizing cues from the swingin' precision of Ella Fitzgerald, the hiccupping innocence and intensity of Buddy Holly. Instead, they sound indentured to the wildly mannerist melodramatics of Mariah Carey and Michael Bolton. ("Just sing the damned song," my friend George Grizzard has been...
...Luny] did sing all the time,” she says. “We used to tease...