Harps and Angels
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 10, 2010
Closed Dec 22, 2010
Opened Nov 10, 2010
Closed Dec 22, 2010
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Randy Newman's witty, complex, bittersweet and often satirical songbook is at the heart of this new work, in which the personal and the socio-political entwine creating a compelling, honest and humorous commentary on what it is like to be born, grow up, fall in love, and live and die in America.
Some of the Newman songs that will be featured include "I Think It's Going to Rain Today," "Sail Away," "Marie," "Rednecks," "My Country," "Louisiana 1927," "Feels Like Home," "You've Got a Friend in Me" and of course, "I Love L.A.," among many others.
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Harps and Angels, the new musical revue at the Mark Taper Forum, illustrates songwriter Randy Newman's contempt for hypocrisy, particularly in our own society. But what could have been an exhausting evening of 35 songs has been turned into a delightful evening by director Jerry Zaks and a top-notch cast.
Newman's songs are so complex some twist the tongue as he fills stanzas with polysyllabic phrases and words rarely found in popular songs like ramify and puppetudes in "Better Off Dead." As for subject matter, they mock such things as American politics ( "A Few Words In Defense of Our Country"), the battle of the sexes ("You Can Leave Your Hat On"), aging ("Potholes") and our fundamental [...]