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...sultry 14-year-old girl, becomes the erotic fixation of a geriatric lecher, Donald (John K. Minervini ’07), after a brief flirtation over the Internet peer-networking program Myspace. Minervini was hysterically funny as Donald: his arthritic posture and craggily old man voice were delightfully over-the-top. However, during his musical numbers, Minervini dropped the old man act and belted with the clarity and intensity of a Broadway veteran—resulting in a hilariously incongruent performance. Goldstein was equally impressive as Marianne. The role required her to shift between being a naïve schoolgirl...
...Grey Album--a mix of the Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's Black Album) present the best psychedelic soul record since the P-Funk era. Cee-Lo has Bobby Womack-style chops and a willingness to get vulnerable, but Danger Mouse replaces all the moldering soul tropes--over-the-top strings, key-changing hysterics--with minimalist bass lines, trippy samples and planetariums full of crunchy galactic sounds. The result on Necromancing, Just a Thought and the superb Crazy (the first single to top the British charts powered only by downloads) is emotional tension balanced perfectly with innovation. NEIL YOUNG...
...double cast as girlfriends in both gangs. Livingston makes and interesting move, cutting out sections of well known songs like “America.” The best scene of the musical is that featuring the song “Gee Officer Krupke.” Incorporating over-the-top theatrics, it serves a dual role as comic relief in an otherwise serious play and as an opportunity for the cast to truly engage their roles as social outcasts. This number alone entirely compensates for the cast’s lack of energy in preceding scenes. The orchestra...
...Ghraib deceived us. Its sexual degradation was so over-the-top that it was difficult to imagine any senior administration official ordering it. At worst, the mistreatment seemed the product of an environment of undue permissiveness toward abusive interrogation...
...horrified reactions to Dr. Knock’s dire diagnoses provides a good sense of the contrast between Parpalaid’s informal treatment of “medicine” and Dr. Knock’s authoritative perspective on the discipline, sometimes the acting is so over-the-top that its frenzy removes the subtlety of the interaction. Albeit amusing, the polarization between Dr. Knock’s cold reserve and the townspeople’s frenzy at times prevents the personal, human element from coming through. Nonetheless, the performances are all very strong...