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Movie, CD and Performance of the Week
Movie of the Week: Just see it. “U2 3D,” now at the the Bullock Texas History Museum’s IMAX Theater, not only redfines the art of the concert movie, it redefines the rhetoric of social change. By perfecting the 3D zoom effect, the National Geographic team has done that rare thing: Create something entirely new. Bless Bono for the foresight to greenlight this stunning project.
CD of the Week: It took weeks to overcome expectations of a booming baritone and Broadway-style belter in the lead roles for “Sweeney Todd,” but Johnny Depp’s scooping pop tenor and Helena Bonham Carter’s sweet lilt for the movie soundtrack grew on me. Eventually, I listened to it obsessively and was even profoundly moved by the singers’ fresh take on Stephen Sondheim’s immortal score.
Performance of the Week: It’s a taut, sexy play given a taut, sexy production. Not that there’s any flesh in Jason Schafer’s “I Google Myself,” produced by Capital T Productions for FronteraFest at the Blue Theater. It’s more about the tug and pull of sexual and emotional power among three men with the same last name, none identifying themselves as gay (at least at first). Cliff Miller, Jude Hickey and Bastion Carboni are fantastic. Last scheduled performance is Friday, but I’d argue for a revival later in the season.
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