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...reasons for this eclipse are simple and depressing. The sweet democracy of Top 40 radio devolved into a dictatorship of rock; songs like Tomorrow (from Annie) and Memory (from Cats) became standards without having been hits. And Broadway producers, turning a tin ear to the lessons of Hair and Superstar, did little to lure younger songwriters -- Randy Newman, Carole King, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, Jim Steinman -- who might have brought the American musical into the age of rock. Or maybe it wouldn't have mattered, given the stodgily conservative tastes of Broadway's geezer audience. The Rocky Horror Show...
...which Vincent will be represented by Brendan Sullivan, Oliver North's attorney in the Iran-contra hearings -- the owners will keep pressing for Vincent's resignation, because they want a stronger advocate with a weaker mandate. Probably there is no white knight for the owners, but it's sweet to daydream about the perfect candidate. A man of stature and compromise. A man whose son is an owner of the Texas Rangers. If George Bush becomes available early next year, he could throw out the ball on opening...
...twilight slips over the hilly college town of Ashland, Oregon, the sweet summer evening seems too balmy and starry for whiling away indoors, even to the holiday throngs who have journeyed to attend the theater here. Fortunately they need not choose between pleasures. Night after night, vividly costumed Shakespeare -- preceded by madrigals and heralded by a flag raising and trumpet fanfare from the topmost gables of a Tudor stagehouse -- unfolds beneath an open sky, turning edification into festival...
...know there's nothing new under the sun or in the dark. But sometimes the most sophisticated moviemakers forget how familiar audiences are with old movie plots. Fonda and Leigh, two gifted, diligent actresses, work hard to find subtleties in their characters: the sweet thing who must locate her angry strength and the sick thing who has been trying to duplicate herself in other women's images ever since her twin sister died. Director Barbet Schroeder (Reversal of Fortune) sweats too, swathing the mayhem in dusky tones, shifting moods easily from working-girl realism to nightmare melodrama. Yet the piece...
...that jazz-pop fusion works. But Secret Story is not just another eloquent instrumental statement. It is a "theme" album with a surprising subject: Pat Metheny. The tracks form an emotional though virtually wordless chronicle of his ill-fated romance with a Brazilian woman. Above the Treetops uses a sweet-voiced Cambodian women's choir to herald the excitement of new love. The intensity builds through the poignant Longest Summer (on which Metheny makes his piano debut). The wrenching finale, Not to Be Forgotten, won't be. And neither will Metheny's daring new venture into himself...