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From one song to the next few people let their eyes wander from the stage. Bobbing their heads softly, they watched Gonzalez spin from keyboard to pedal board. He played guitar solos and ducked down out of sight when the electronics took over; his laptop was out of sight but ever-present...
Some of the most intriguing moments came after the band had left the stage, only to return for the increasingly requisite encore performance (the second encore is the new encore, after all). The finale was begun with a cover of “Inside of You,” by the similarly outlandish countryish troubadour named Tom Jans. The song reflected a lot of Oldham’s own tendencies, including his bizarrely overt and yet endearing tendency to inject sexual references into otherwise Platonic enough songs of love lost and found (well, mostly lost). The group followed this cover...
...Home is the Sea” and “Goat and Ram” both crescendoed in new ways in the live setting). As enigmatic and skittish as Oldham is known to be, he comes off remarkably calm and melody-oriented on both the album and the stage, and because this contrasts some with his past, often frenetic, work, it may be chalked up to Sweeney’s presence and the collaborative nature of the relationship, something relatively unknown to the “Prince...
...says Hazle. The dancers, who have been learning their roles since February, certainly seemed seemed to feel the momentum of the show’s approach building. Donning colorful, flowing skirts, recently pressed by the HBC members in charge of costume design, they took Rieman’s stage for their last few days of rehearsals, confident and apparently ready for Thursday’s opening night...
...play’s action transpires on a spartan, black brick stage. Marrinan and Chen have dressed the set walls and ceiling with chicken wire—giving the stage the effect of a bomb shelter or asylum. A small television set, broadcasting static, sits at the front right of the stage, and a small table and serving tray, at the stage’s rear left, comprise all of the play’s major props...