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...performance of "No Time At All," Pippin's requisite show-stopper, has the audience literally singing right along with him. And even those who've never heard the music before can participate; the words to the chorus are in the program. Can you sing "It's time to start livin'," boys and girls...
Having established themselves as utterly clueless, this oddball crew proceeds to deliver a rousing number, in which they equate the whole operation with a religious football game. ("We're special-teamin' for the Lord...") Their energetic pep-rally-cum-war-anthem is the production's first real show-stopper...
...female actors) tell their stories to a wide variety of music. The audience never knows what to expect next. They tell their father of Joseph's demise in the form of a country-western ballad and protest the innocence of Benjamin to a Carribean beat. The absolute show stopper, however, is definitely "Those Canaan Days," performed with outrageous "Fronch" accents in the style of outdoor cafe singers during the fin-de-siecle. If for nothing else, people have to see Joseph for these great ensemble numbers...
Hardington, the stopper for the Harvard men's soccer team, had a bone to pick with Penn's playing tactics Saturday at Ohiri Field. With his team down 1-0 in the second half, the senior booter scored the tying goal moments after complaining about the Quakers' dirty play...
...combination would really be a show-stopper. We could have the finest collection ever assembled to show man's development in this hemisphere," Perot said...