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MUSICALLY, THE ADVENTURES are rather ordinary, deviating little from the standard pop fare. They do, however, manage to set themselves apart slightly from the mainstream with a pervading chimey guitar and vocal harmony throughout. The problem is that a distinctive style fails to carry through the entire album with much force, and their limited experimentation fails to stumble randomly upon Goldilocks' golden mean...
...built his reputation as the composer and lyricist of Hello, Dolly and Mame, argues that in the theater, "the strongest single force you could have is a larger-than-life lady on the stage." That chivalric premise is supported by two current Broadway delights, Bernadette Peters' act-long vocal solo in Song & Dance and Lily Tomlin's one-woman show, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. The same nothing-like-a-dame thinking underlies Jerry's Girls, a retrospective pastiche of Herman's work, featuring Dorothy Loudon, Leslie Uggams, Chita Rivera and eight chorines, which opened...
Following the Star: Mistral Vocal Ensemble, Parish of the Messiah, 1900 Commonwealth Ave, Auburndale...
Following the Star: Mistral Vocal Ensemble, Old Cambridge Baptist Church, Friday and Saturday...
Things don't get any better on the last three tracks on side one. "Are You Red...Y" completely drowns out Strummer's vocal in New Order-ripoff rhythm tracks. "Cool Under Heat" opens with a Husker Du guitar lead, and combines inappropriate acoustic guitar with more electronic abuse. "Movers and Shakers" wraps up the side with an interminably long lesson about how to succeed by "working coins from the cold concrete" (just like Strummer is doing), complete with synthesized Mariachi horns...