Word: wheelerism
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...yeah--totally. The last play I did at Harvard was Burn This in Winthrop House. I also did a shepherd play directed by David Wheeler and a play over at the North Theatre Company. But I really would have done more--I knew people who were doing like two and three shows a semester. I would have done that if I would have been guaranteed to stay there the whole semester. But college theater is fun--doing student directed stuff is great because everyone gets in there together...
...last few years, Wheeler and Sundays guitar man David Gavurin have begun raising a family; simultaneously, they have birthed some exceptionally creative and poetic songs, and have imbued them with the kind of swirly, impressionistic backup that only five years of perfectionism can accomplish...
...public adulation--and its efforts to compartmentalize The Sundays--gradually ceased in the years after Blind, as Wheeler and her cronies ceded the spotlight to similarly-styled groups like The Cranberries and Stereolab. If The Sundays were compared to anyone during that sad, dark period, it was probably another band that had passed into similar "whatever happened to...?" oblivion...
...around indie dynamism. When The Sundays accompanied Belly on their 1990-91 tour of the UK, the two female vocalists naturally became the focus of similar scrutiny: whereas Belly's frontwoman Tanya Donelly balanced her more direct and powerful voice against mysterious and effervescent orchestration, The Sundays' Harriet Wheeler used her gentler tone to sing the audience lullabies instead...
...Magazine technicians "perhaps reconstructed too much," Newsweek spokeswoman Karen Wheeler said of the Topol's touch. "But it was not done to mislead the public or to do any inappropriate dental work." Okay, but will Newsweek be there when all the little McCaugheys need braces...