Three - 3hree

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Free Music Review: Mice, Madmoiselles, and Machines
Hit: 5 Stars

In my opinion, it is the first of the pieces, `The Mice', that is the most impressive. I did not realize this on first hearing, since it is melodically the least accesible. But on better acquaintance, there is some really impressive dramatic music here, such that, as it came round on my car cd again, I unexpectedly found myself on the verge of tears. The action actually wanders into Aida/Radames and Liebestod country, not what normally occurs in American theatre. While there is obviously no comparison musically (let's do be serious), hearing these grand opera sentiments expressed in flat middle western accents is touching and poignant. The lyrics are far and away the best on the album (and the others are by no means bad) in that they eschew `mere' cleverness for truly effective characterization.

The album is poignant in another way, in that the performances are superb. `Mice' is actually a first class small radio drama as produced. I had to check the credits to realize that John Scherer, the hen-pecked exterminator of the Mice, also plays the Miles Gloriosus character in the Lawnchair act. Knowing the obstacles performers of this quality are going to have to face in an MTV world is exasperating to me.

Finally, this is ideal high school theatre stuff (assuming the music is instrumentally performable, which is something I wouldn't know. I do know it's singable.) At that level, you wouldn't multicast, which gives more than 10 featured roles. And the fact that the music is all but unknown actually would add considerable interest to the production. Beats the hell out of one more `Carousel'. I have had a copy sent to the drama teacher at my daughter's high school. (They did `The Wiz' this April. Whoopee.)

Good luck to all concerned. Nicely done.

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