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...time out of time and a place / Of awe where we all can learn / To respect the power of nature / And the lesson that we learn’s / Jurassic Park!” The lyrics were printed on the programs, allowing the audience to sing along with the cast at the end of the play. The song was at once a parody, a tribute, and a chance for enthusiastic actors to show off for an enthusiastic crowd—just like the rest of this unconventional performance...
...Mantello’s “Assassins, which appeared on Broadway four years ago,” had the same shooting gallery, and this production also copies its 2004 predecessor by merging the roles of the Balladeer—the show’s singing narrator—and Lee Harvey Oswald. Last Friday’s production may have come off without any major hitch, but there was a nagging feeling that the sparks didn’t fly, that it never reached out to rough up the prevailing mood of Hope and Change. Some directorial risk-taking...
...with the same beautiful woman, Erisbe (who is, of course, unavailable, having married an ancient, wealthy and powerful monarch). The young queen and her two suitors are backed by a cast that includes three Egyptian fortune-tellers, a page, a lady-in-waiting, and a king, all of whom sing lengthy solo arias and pose and mime animatedly. This is meant to be very much in tune with the Baroque style, which suggests the way deep emotion arises out of formal gesture. Performance in the very idiosyncratic vein of “Baroque” was in fact the subject...
...Your Eyes Only," Sheena Easton A truly horrible song by any measure - except the Bond theme measure. Easton crams in the lyrical double entendres just in case we forget we're at the peak of the Roger Moore era and never misses an opportunity to overemote. To hear Easton sing it, James Bond isn't just keeping the world safe from baddies; he's keeping our hearts safe...
While she cared deeply about South Africa and about her role in its struggle for equality, she was also a fundamentally blithe spirit who would cook grand feasts for her friends and sing lyrics like "Pata Pata is the name of a dance we do down Johannesburg...