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Friday, Feb. 25. Big Head Todd and the Monsters. With Carbon Leaf. 18+. 7 p.m. Avalon, 15 Landsdowne St., Boston. $22.50. Tickets available through Ticketmaster...
...second team Harvard sent consisted of sophomores Jason De Lierre, Ilan Oren, Mihir Sheth, and Todd Ostrow along with senior Ryan Abraham...
...grievance into obsession and tragedy. Don Quixote, in a Man of La Mancha revival two years ago, is the addled victim of scorn and abuse. Paul the puppeteer, in the City Center Encores! 2002 concert version of Carnival, is crippled, and expresses his sensitivity in bitterness. The barber Sweeney Todd, whom Mitchell played the same year for a Stephen Sondheim season in Washington, D.C., kills his customers and sells their ground-up bodies as meat pies. As the put-upon petty criminal (a non-singing role) in August Wilson?s King Hedley II, Mitchell plays a troubled man heading...
...pasts” abound, as do vaguely political gestures like “we’re dropping bombs we’ve made by guzzling gasoline.” She’s been accused of pretension before, but in many of these songs it seems as though Todd (an unrepentant Yalie) has erred too far in the opposite direction, exuding a conscious primitivism that keeps her dulcet melodies from transcending their stifled semantics...
Manzanita‘s ten songs Todd proves that form can indeed triumph over function, at least when it comes to female singer-songwriters. Todd has a solid album here; with better lyrics and more cross-pollination from her Plug Research peers she could eventually have a classic to her name...