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These theatres would be kept at a controlled temperature of 15 degrees, with optional snow. Liquor and bad, overpriced hot dogs would be sold. Local high school bands and cheerleaders would strut about at half-time. The died-in-the-wool fan would have everything he goes now goes to the stadium for, plus the benefits of expert TV commentary, instant replays, and point of view cameras...
...better for it. Perhaps reflecting the common schizophrenia of directionless musicals, however, Baker and Fischoff aren't quite sure whether they want their score to be Hair or Hello, Dolly. So, we get a fine rock number ("There's a Comin' Together") in the first act and a soppy strut-number ("Sweet Memory") in the second. Worst of all, the first-act rocker is given a safe, conventional dance to go with it-despite the fact that the dancers are dressed as freaks. That discrepancy had better be dealt with quickly-for, these days, you can't have your Hair...
Pratt & Whitney finally found a solution by modifying the mounting, in effect adding an extra strut to carry the thrust. The new part will not be ready until the first 30 aircraft have been built...
...Noonoo and Terry Emerson (as the town's humanistic newspaper editor) who have the privilege of rendering the show's title song, a straw-hat-and-strut number. Kicking up their feet, slapping each other's backs, winking away as if they would never see unhappiness again, Noonoo and Emerson make the song's nostalgic electricity crawl right up the audience's collective spinal cord...
...TYNER (Blue Note). The former Coltrane pianist here plays in a quartet that includes Vibist Bobby Hutcherson. Tyner's composition African Village is a free fall into the heart of rhythms that pound and shift as McCoy and Bobby superimpose eddying patterns. May Street moves along with jaunty strut, shadowed, however, by a tension of eerie chords. As for standard tunes, Tyner does a pensive I Didn't Know What Time It Was and then zooms off in The Surrey with the Fringe...