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...acting--with a few negligible exceptions--is superb. The heart of this play--Prince Hal (Bill Camp) and Sir John Falstaff (Jeremy Geidt)--beats with perfect rhythm. Mistress Quickly (Remio Airaldi), Doll Tearsheet (Maggie Rush), the Archbishop of York (Herb Downer), and Justice Shallow (William Young) are particularly memorable. Under the direction of Ron Daniels, these characters are shaped pertinently from the text. Not simply characters from Shakespeare, they are characters we interact with daily They are our friends and families; they are ourselves...
...sense to me." On their new album, however, Axl Rose and his bandmates present a collection of tributes to the '70s punk rock that inspired them -- from the Sex Pistols' Black Leather to the Stooges' Raw Power -- and in doing so they find a way not only to display superb musicianship but also to express anger without their characteristic crassness. Interestingly, if Guns N' Roses on its own albums has sometimes seemed to lose control over its lyrics, its music on "The Spaghetti Incident?" displays more focus than many of the sloppily spontaneous punk-rock originals...
...record, or records (if you want the two singles), keeps the layers and layers of superb, crisp hooks while ditching the Lewis Carroll ideology: perhaps in reaction to the Riot Grrrl thing, Heavenly has written songs about female self-reliance, gender-based intimidation and, yes, date rape. "P.U.N.K. Girl" is about a supercool but rather repressed "girl" (no age given) who, Amelia Fletcher wishes, would act as "punk" as she makes Fletcher feel: "P is for the painful way/You make me feel some days/U is for you turn me on..." "Atta Girl" gives a disco-flavored backbeat to congratulations...
Theater: The Kentucky Cycle is scathing, superb history...
That being said, it is true that the band--made up of the four regular Maniacs and then and additional nine musicians, including two bassoonists, a cellist, a banjoist and a mandolinist--accompanying Natalie is superb. For such a large acoustic band, they sound wonderful, complementing each other perfectly throughout every song. The musicians all know that Natalie is the star, so there is no need for anyone else to try and steal the spotlight; instead, they focus on playing well together. Track after track features subtly lyrical arrangements. "It's true that you are touched by something," Merchant sings...