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...show's music and book is that Merlyn is more of a Greatest Hits compilation of Musical Theater than an original production. A lot of the scenes are strikingly reminiscent stagings of scenes from other shows. Merlyn's solo in captivity is straight out of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. When bawdy types convene in a tavern, one expects the Master of the House from Les Miserables to drop in. And, when the ensemble gropes at and pleads suggestively for Merlyn to "Come, come," they might as well be addressing Pippin. What is true for some of the staging...
What is it in this man, in his urgent voice and eager eyes, in the message and the messenger, that overwhelms even those who are predisposed to distrust him? Long ago, Billy Graham gave up the shiny suits and technicolor ties of the brash young evangelist; the silver mane is thinner now, the step may falter a bit, he no longer prowls the stage like a lynx. In his preaching as well, the temperatures of hellfire have been reduced, the volume turned down. Graham knows he needs to save his strength: he is fighting Parkinson's disease, a progressive nervous...
...tiny watercolor Mexican town huddles beneath pastel pink and purple mountains on the dustjacket of Harriet Doerr's new novel, Consider This, Senora. An azure bubble of a church dome, crimson and cream splashes of title roofing and whitewashed walls merge in a hazy dreamscape technicolor. The cover seems to promise a self-indulgent, romanticized odyssey into a picture perfect landscape. But the text within reveals nothing of the sort: Doerr's crisp, pacific prose never lapses into kitsch other-worldliness in this captivating portrait of gringos in small-town Mexico...
Think of the consequences for art. In novels like those of Graham Greene, when a married couple is on the verge of mutual annihilation they inquire politely into each others' health, and ask whether they should brew some tea, while technicolor rage circulates beneath. "Yes, Fred. Get the tea." The tension screams out from the mundanity. Now all we get is some pretentious, self-proclaimed novelist giving us 50 pages of emotional history, followed by a long conjugal argument repeating the same. My interest usually lapses early on." Bob's childhood was rough. The lawnmower his father wielded intimidated...
...Webber's famed Evita. Webber's solo efforts include mega-hits Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. Evita, on the other hand, was written 16 years ago with the help of lyricist Tim Rice, whose previous collaborations with Webber include Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat...