It's a Lyric Show and it's also a Latitude show and it's infused with that spirit of make-do and invention.
The song includes a lyric about shoes that might help travelers avoid one of the city's most venerable, if comic, hustles.
How much gay innuendo in a lyric by Cole Porter or Larry Hart or Noel Coward was necessary to make it a legitimate part of the gay-cultural corpus?
"I had processed months ago that it wasn't on the cards, " he told the Associated Press, "so I was just going about my day trying desperately to write a lyric for Shrek!"
If Local Natives' "Airplanes" existed only as a lyric sheet, it would unfold as a wispy dirge: A man begs for his lost love's return when he's not staring at her picture or clinging to souvenirs that remind him of her.
The great examples respect the artist and what the artist needs to get out of the partnership, and the artist is used to create a vibe, and not for a convenient lyric in a song.
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And so, although possessed of a remarkable lyric gift from an early age, Matthew could never wholeheartedly believe that to be a poet was sufficient.
On "Valentine, " based on "My Funny Valentine, " Mr. Thaws raps over a loop of Chet Baker singing the song's title until Ms. Belmonte enters to sing a new lyric and melody.
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"If I've got a really dark lyric, it's probably disguised in a chirpy song, " says the singer.
Mr. Doyle, who also designed the set for this production, has approached "Passion" not as a naturalistic love story but as a piece of lyric theater, placing it in the simplest of environments, an open thrust stage, and arranging the actors in quasiballetic stage groupings that are as poetic as the songs they sing.
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Begin by selecting a phrase from a poem, scripture, lyric or advertising jingle, and create a word using the first letter of each word.
Anyone who has ever been to a Jerry Lee Lewis show can tell you how Jerry Lee will insert his name into the lyric of a song at the drop of a hat.
Completing a distinguished line-up of nominees are Brian Dennehy for Death of a Salesman at the Lyric, Con O'Neill for Telstar at the New Ambassadors, and David Threlfall for Someone Who'll Watch Over Me.
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Their fellow nominees are Helen McCrory, from the Wyndham's Theatre production of As You Like It, Clare Higgins for Death of a Salesman at the Lyric, and Eve Best for Hedda Gabler at the Almeida and Duke of York's theatres.
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While it was originally presented so effectively as a rocking rhythm number that few noticed it had a storyline, now lyric and rhythm are rebalanced so that its portrait of an abandoned woman's last vestige of connection with her ex via the airwaves stays up front.
Like the Tulsa Opera, the Lyric Opera has a history of supporting rising talent, none more significant than the mezzo Joyce DiDonato, who grew up in the Kansas City suburbs, on the Kansas side.
If you can search for the lyric properly, a solid result shows you that the TuneWiki app can give the lyrics to any song, and the Shazam app recognizes songs based on lyrics or sound clips.
Chicago has always understood the power of the arts, too, in helping it to carve out a strong identity (its art museum is staggering), and sitting among those iconic riverside buildings is the Lyric Opera of Chicago, a tempting mix of neo-classical exterior and golden art nouveau and art deco interior.
So similar, in fact, that the "Glee" version included Coulton's line "Johnny C's in trouble, " replacing the lyric "Mix-A-Lot's in trouble" in the original song.
Ben was kind enough to let us run it first but it will end up on his blog soon, where he starts his posts with a rap or hip-hop lyric.
So what does a major theatre company like London's Lyric Hammersmith gain from putting on work away from its normal environment?
In a larger context, I can relate the song lyric to the evolving business environment as companies of every size look to offer their goods and services not only within their local communities, but also across the globe.
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Among his recent roles are Emile de Becque in the Lincoln Center revival of "South Pacific" that recently toured Australia (a role that has been played by opera singers), and Stanley Kowalski in the coming modern-opera production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" at Chicago's Lyric Opera and New York's Carnegie Hall in March.
About a week after the girls disappeared, investigators said they thought Lyric and Elizabeth were alive.
Like other songs with universal themes - say, REM's Everybody Hurts - the imprecision of the lyric is seen by the many it reaches as a strength and by others as a weakness - a vagueness approaching greeting-card levels.
Like many Nouvelle Vague reinventions, the lyric for "The Killing Moon" is delivered in a girlish deadpan, removing the song from its sad sentiments.
The youngest contestant at 21, soprano Rebecca Pedersen, from Bountiful, Utah, used arias from Massenet's "Le Cid" and Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci" to highlight a polished technique and potent sound that suggested she might grow beyond lyric roles.
He also participates as a board member of the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness, Chicago United, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, The University of Chicago Hospitals and The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
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