The Gift 8/10 An exquisite dichotomy exists between the sweetness of Leah Berry’s voice and the worldliness of her words. “I move slow,” she tells us, “since the last time I found warmth in your embrace.” Yet, at the end, she’s affirming, “You’ll stay in my dreams.” This complex love…
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Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, September 22 9/10 Someone said to me, “Not My Fair Lady, again!” But when it’s this good, 10 years seems rather too long between elocution lessons. It still makes most other musicals seem trashy, with their cartoon characters, simplistic stories and limp or overwrought…
Remedy (Ropeadope) 8/10 You know that feeling when you revisit a home from your past, to find the furniture changed and walls repainted, so any familiarity or nostalgia are jumbled with an unsettling newness? This third Zela Margossian Quintet album is like that. The familiarity of the snaking melodies…