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...funny, moments come during non-musical scenes, with the extravagant gesticulations of the characters, especially the chorus. During last Friday's production, the show was unexpectedly halted in the middle of the first act by a fire caused by a faulty cable. After a 30-minute delay, with the smell of burnt wire filling the theater, the actors reconvened. The smooth continuation of the play is true credit to the cast and crew, who didn't let the fire break their concentration...
...cast's quick reaction to a near-tragedy erased the audience's concerns, and the play continued without a hitch. Audiences who will see the musical this weekend hopefully will not smell burnt wires and see flying sparks. The lively production of this clever, melodramatic score has plenty of sparks...
According to the show's lighting designer, Alan P. Symonds, a faulty connector about 16 feet above the Agaaiz Theatre stage caused the sparks and produced a burning smell...
Undercover of the Night. Like much of the best Stones stuff, this song is a dance through a nightmare, behind a slick, heavy beat that is unmistakably contemporary and irresistibly funky. The lyrics make scary references to "100,000 disparus lost in the jails in South America" and "The smell of sex/ The smell of suicide." Undercover of the Night launches two sides of grizzly humor, humid sexuality and gut-level rock. The song titles-Too Much Blood...
...Nina Bernstein), who called the police to get rid of him, is having an affair with a slick town lawyer, and both husband and wife would like nothing more than to sell the house, gyp the spouse, and move out with the kids. The scene's immediacy--with the smell of frying ham drifting out to the audience as Ella starts breakfast--is gradually overwhelmed by an almost surrealistic sense of squalor...