Word: stompfest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dime-store Freud. (The killer demons were escapees from the id of a man who, like most sci-fi antiheroes, tried to play God.) Writer-director Bob Carlton blended that cult-movie narrative with snippets of dialogue, some in blank verse (and occasionally in blank mind), and a stompfest of '50s and '60s rock standards (Shake, Rattle and Roll; Great Balls of Fire; Born to Be Wild). London bestowed on it the Olivier award, passing over Miss Saigon and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love. Now the song and story are back where they were born, in the U.S.A...
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