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Opportunes: The Opportunes will "Let the Music Play" while they sing at three Sandal's couples resorts in Jamaica. In exchange for their energetic performances, Sandal's lets the Opportunes party, sun and drink at these all-inclusive resorts. As part of a special, once-a-year treat, John Kearney, an a cappella enthusiast who heard the Opportunes sing at Sandal's eight years ago, will invite them to his plush estate for gourmet food galore...
Pitches: Another a cappella group, another trip to Bermuda. The twelve Pitches travel with those handsome Kroks and Dins to--surprise, surprise--sing at hotels and restaurants all over the island. Random Pitch-Din hookups have become the tradition, as has "Fantasy Night," a crazy evening where each Pitch can pick her favorite Din solo to sing with some Din accompaniment. The cost? Nada--what do you think all those jams...
...music and the audience. As the evening progresses, he grows comfortable enough to begin joking and ad-libbing between songs, revealing a sweet, almost childlike directness. Introducing his first encore, one of the great ballads from Pet Sounds, he says, "Back in the early '60s I used to sing like a girl, and here's a song I sang called Caroline, No." Earlier he had been getting aid (if not outright ghost-singing) on some of his songs' famous falsetto passages, but here he nails the high notes perfectly...
...whistle, Johanna?" asks a beau showing off his belle in Kannst du pfeifen, Johanna? "Can you sing? Eat a peach? Gargle? Babble?" Johanna (a falsetto Frommermann) dutifully answers, with suitably rude sound effects, until the lover says sternly, "Can you be quiet, Johanna?" The comic portrait of a doomed courtship, in three minutes flat...
Band in Berlin, co-directed by Susan Feldman (who wrote the book) and Patricia Birch, wants you to sing and think as you leave the theater. A slide show with music, it mixes reminiscences of the last living Harmonist, Roman Cycowski (Herbert Rubens), with photos--flashed on screens behind the singers--of Hitler and some of the brilliant artists whose lives he disrupted. That the Nazis were bad is not news. What is news is the agility of the vocal ensemble Hudson Shad, which has long been singing the Comedian Harmonists' repertoire, and which brings the old tunes to witty...