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...people who witnessed the show could argue with the fact that the numbers from When I Woke, Rusted Root's first LP, brought out more joy and enthusiasm than anything else that night. "Virtual Reality," from the album Remember and the soundtrack to the movie Twister, got the crowd moving as the first song of the evening, but the slower, funkier rhythms of "Cat Turned Blue" from When I Woke elicited a lot more screams of approval and subsequent groovings. "Laugh as the Sun," the deliciously hypnotic song that followed, proved a little too intense to dance to, but that...
...Swedish band, the Cardigans, it resides in the encounter of contrary instincts--the sweet, seductive purr of joyful music and the dark, cruel snarl of painful obsessions. Remember "Lovefool," the song from a couple of years ago that burst off the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack and was suddenly, like the fixated ex-lover it depicted, lurking stubbornly everywhere you looked? Few songs have snuck a more subversive view of love into the frivolous dance arena of top 40 radio. You'd scarcely realize from the jubilant disco drums and the syncopated keyboard touches that the song was actually about wretched abjection...
Rather than the famous "Now is the winter of our discontent...," Sussner's production begins with a creepy gothic soundtrack and a series of strobe-lighted pantomimes predicting (in reverse order) the murders that lead to Richard's kingly demise. Though the twisted, dehumanizing feel of the play is well captured by this unsettling preview, its final effect is desensitizing. Rather than beginning (as Shakespeare does) with a group of characters whose humanity is undermined as the play progresses, the humanity of Sussner's cast is defaced from the very start. Though David Egan '00 (Richard) and the other cast...
However, not all of the songs maintained her early energy. As the show went on, many started to drag, including the new compositions "I Want To Want You" and "Bad Day." Even the popular "Spin The Bottle" (as featured on the Reality Bites soundtrack) couldn't completely capture the fancy of the crowd, despite Juliana's assertion that it was a "song about Robert Redford...
...self-possession one would expect of the woman herself. Opposite him in this scene is Green, with a Muppet-like rendition of Lavinia, the tongueless assistant. The idea for the scenario is mediocre at best, but the caricatures by Amblad and Green in conjunction with the cheery daytime TV soundtrack definitely took the humor up a notch...