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...WONDERFUL LIFE. Joe Raposo, composer of Sing and much of Sesame Street, left a trove of musicals-in-the-making at his death in 1989. This remake of the Frank Capra-Jimmy Stewart film classic It's a Wonderful Life, at Washington's Arena Stage, is as sweet and gosh-darn inspirational as the original. But Sheldon Harnick's book and, especially, lyrics wobble embarrassingly in tone, and the storytelling transition from screen to stage is much less than magical...
...from the potato fields of Minnesota. It is as if we are desperately insecure about our contribution to national culture and politics. Ours is the birthplace of Lincoln and Twain-but they're dead now and we need someone new, I guess. Someone to tell our stories and sing our praises...
...Like the rest of WLT's hayseeds and gallus snappers, the Shepherd Boys begin to lose listeners. In their prime, Keillor relates, they "could kill a quart like it was lemonade and and then they would jump in the sack with anything in high heels, hop out and sing 'The Old Rugged Cross,' and feel so good, they'd jump right back in." Maybe they still could, given the chance, but unemployment looms. With Frank White, the author's bright-eyed hero, they are exiled to the sticks, sent on the road "in an old schoolbus, rattling from...
...never let up from there. The next song, "Spreadin' Rhythm Around," presented a skilled ensemble who could sing on key and snap brilliantly at the same time. The singing was intense, but the mood was relaxed...
...Pitches headlined the show, and after two all-male opening groups performed, the audience eagerly awaited some singing by sopranos and altos. A rather lengthy opening humor sketch took some of the punch away from musical side of the group's program. But when the Pitches invited Archie Epps on stage to sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" with them, this move replenished the flagging energy of the audience--the electricity was palpable...