Word: sondheimer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to cheer yourself up, killing the President of the United States is probably the last thing you'd think of. But for the characters in Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, nothing else comes close. "Everybody's got the right to be happy," they say over and over, and stake that right throughout history by shooting presidents from Lincoln to Kennedy...
...Assassins. The Sondheim musical that deals with--i.e. glorifies--the killing of political leaders. Tickets: $3, PfoHo residents; $4, the rest of us. Pforzheimer House Dining Hall...
Madonna once again confounds our expectations--and, at times, exasperations. At first a star more famous for attitude than for voice, she proved, in the 1990 Dick Tracy, equal to the sere demands of Stephen Sondheim's songs. Here again she does a tough score proud. Lacking the vocal vigor of Elaine Paige's West End Evita, Madonna plays Evita with a poignant weariness, as if death has shrouded her from infancy. And dressed in sumptuous gowns or feeling life seep away, she has more than just a little bit of star quality. Just before Eva's death, she sings...
...ambitious production of a classic, like the Mainstage "Three Sisters" of 1995 and (presumably) the forthcoming "Coriolanus"; the hip contemporary play, like last year's "Fat Men in Skirts" or 1994's "Six Degrees of Separation"; and the musical, which can range from a low-budget house affair to Sondheim overdoses of "A Little Night Music" and "Company...
...Leonard Bernstein's pattersong "I Can Cook Too." "Blah Blah Blah" particularly allowed deLima to camp it up, leading the audience in a sing-along while capering to the absurd lyrics. (The screen on which the lyrics were projected was a nice touch, too.) As for the four Sondheim songs, including three in a row at the end, they were not too big a price to pay for the rest -- which is saying quite...