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...myth. Nelson's version of the title track is a characteristic redrafting: a song about illegal refugees widens into a memorable evocation of rootlessness, helplessness and drift. Written by Ry Cooder, John Hiatt and James Dickinson for a film sound track, Across the Borderline has become a contemporary classic, sung by, among others, Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. But no one has caught so well as Nelson the melancholy and desperation at the heart of the song, or conveyed it with such glancing delicacy...
...musical by Craig Peters based on Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days". This is not a 'musical'--it lacks the necessary plot and unity, and will leave an audience expecting these basics disappointed. Eighty Days is a showcase for Peters' original music to be played and sung, and if viewed from that perspective, it's a show worth seeing...
Nine songs make up the core of this short, hour-and-a-half production, sung against back-drops ranging from a business club in London to the streets of Paris, from China to India to New York City. The small, fourteen-member orchestra, conducted by Steven Huang, gives Peters a rare opportunity to actually see and hear his music come off the page...
...next number, Gitano's "Improvise," which feels more licentious and uninhibited, with a Spanish rhythm. This mood music then gives way to a series of clipped scenes, each with its own song: "Ze Sidealk Cafe" is cleverly lyricized, sprinkled with stock French expressions ("au contraire...laissez-faire...Camembert") and sung individually by chorus members in a cute, Epcot Center-World Show-case style...
...Street, U.S.A." (another Disney reference), the number "Only One Can Be the Best" sounds like it's being played by an unsynchronized high school band--we wonder if this sound characterizes smalltown America. In an impressive conclusion, Peters presents a charming ballad and Irish jig ("Chasin' the Rainbow"), beautifully sung by the poor Irish immigrant Maureen (Wynne Love). It is exciting to know that all of this music has been written by a Harvard undergrad; too bad we aren't told more about this project in the program...