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...holy grails that will lift the witch's spell are Jack's beloved white cow, Little Red Ridinghood's crimson cape, Rapunzel's yellow hair and Cinderella's golden slipper, by the end of the first act the fairy-tale figures have bonded into a community and sing and dance about living happily ever after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Some Enchanted Evening INTO THE WOODS | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

Giani also deals handily with a second problem often associated with productions of Superstar--the music is very difficult to sing. Webber and Rice write catchy tunes, but their use of demanding harmonies often results in offpitch notes from even good vocalists...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Cross Examination | 11/13/1987 | See Source »

Luke couldn't sing one more song...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bye, Bye Luke | 11/4/1987 | See Source »

...problematic is Hancock's heavy-handed political rhetoric. There's a highly emotional scene in the play-within-a-movie where the ex-cons decry the fact that they are "victims of a capitalist society" and ask "Where are the big criminals?" But these are the same men who sing "I got things up my ass, I got things up my nose." It's funny, but it subverts the movie's well-touted "message...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Stars and Bars | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

...even in my disappointment, for a Series properly bathed in advocacy. And both the Tigers and the Giants blow it. What was I supposed to do? The Twins or the Cards? Who cares? How could I sing the fan's song in a strange land in a strange land of roofs and carpets...

Author: By Stephen J. Gould, | Title: On Rooting | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

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