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...Webber, Boren's press secretary, said thatthe senator "sees his role as being on theselection committee...
...show opened with a performance by Somerville resident Katlin McKenna, age 9, who skated to "Magic of the Night," from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera...
Evita also seems to fall short of the usual number of original and memorable melodies we expect from Webber and Rice. All of the melodies are repeated at least once, some as many as three times. Webber relies too heavily on "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," which opens both acts and also closes the show...
Despite the repetitiveness, Rice and Webber's vast creativity and active imaginations come to the forefront in this musical. The choreography of the song "The Art of the Possible" is impressive, beginning slowly with five military officers sitting in rocking chairs, singing. They then stand up, remove a chair and proceed to play musical chair. The point of the game: The man left standing is forced to leave the room, and thus symbolically relinquishes power over Argentina. The remaining men sit and the tempo of the song increases slightly. This charade continues until Juan Peron is the only one left...
...Webber plucks the emotional string of the audience throughout his musical. The audience mourns Evita's death by way of the nauseatingly high-pitched chorus of "Requiem Evita" (which sounds amazingly like Webber's own Requiem). We empathize with Evita's triumphs as she passes through the turbulent trials of her life. In a strange sense, we even admire Evita's fortitude despite our disgust at her betrayals of Argentina. This duality of feeling toward Evita is precisely what Webber wants us to experience...