Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chiqui O. Matthew '00, who primarily writes poetry and song lyrics but also has worked on screenwriting and short stories, fronts a different response when approached with criticism...
...clothes and put on masks to convey the wide variety of personalities and places featured in the musical. All of this frantic shifting of attitude and environment makes the show's final number, in which the cast members face the audience as themselves and sing about finding a new song, all the more powerful. Its sweet, hopeful simplicity is an eloquent conclusion that suggest the humanity lying beneath all of the show's hectic modern concerns...
...actors are also responsible for most of the show's choreography, which usually involves high-energy, free-spirited dance. But for many of the numbers, the movement on stage plays an integral part in communicating the writer's ideas to the audience. For example, the song "Information O.D." has the cast typing furiously away at computers as they try to remember important or trivial pieces of information that get lost in their hectic lives...
...rhythm-heavy grooves of the nocturnal crowd belongs to Kyle Utley, president of Flip-It Records, and Parton's just one of the artists he has in his sights. Also on his hit list: a funked-up remix of Rickie Lee Jones' Living It Up; and a song, Relax!, with Zsa Zsa Gabor...
...tough, the only thing we had for the solace of the soul was the music," he says. On the album's final track, Guess What's Happening, Luciano sings of seeing a man "toiling in the burning sun...wondering if and when he's gonna have his share." The song hints at revolution, but the tune is easy and carefree. It's smiling insurgency...