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I went to the Toons fall concert, not realizing that they had two guest groups as well.
First up were the Tufts Jackson Jills, an all-women group. Technically, they were pretty good, but they lacked energy on stage, at least until the last song they sang, which gave a glimpse into why a CD of theirs might've gotten an award for best all-women CD. There was emotion, verve, fire. I wished they'd started with that and gone on from there.
Next up were the BU Terpsichore, another all-women group, also dressed all in black. I've heard them before, and they're decent, but this time they were better than that. They have the stage presence the previous group lacked, and a fuller depth of sound, too.
And then it was the Toons turn. They're a co-ed MIT/Wellesley group. Their first song was about superheroes, and they were all appropriately dressed: Superman, Spider Man, a Ninja Turtle, and many others I didn't recognize as easily. The crowd, totally partisan, loved everything they sang. Noteworthy was a song about a boy in love with a girl's mother: one of the guys put on a dress with enormous falsies, fluttering his eyelashes every which way. The rest of their music was solidly good, if not as acted out. There were the obligatory comic skits, one of which was "Finding Nemo: Reloaded". It was funny, though I'm sure it would've been more so had I seen either movie.
First up were the Tufts Jackson Jills, an all-women group. Technically, they were pretty good, but they lacked energy on stage, at least until the last song they sang, which gave a glimpse into why a CD of theirs might've gotten an award for best all-women CD. There was emotion, verve, fire. I wished they'd started with that and gone on from there.
Next up were the BU Terpsichore, another all-women group, also dressed all in black. I've heard them before, and they're decent, but this time they were better than that. They have the stage presence the previous group lacked, and a fuller depth of sound, too.
And then it was the Toons turn. They're a co-ed MIT/Wellesley group. Their first song was about superheroes, and they were all appropriately dressed: Superman, Spider Man, a Ninja Turtle, and many others I didn't recognize as easily. The crowd, totally partisan, loved everything they sang. Noteworthy was a song about a boy in love with a girl's mother: one of the guys put on a dress with enormous falsies, fluttering his eyelashes every which way. The rest of their music was solidly good, if not as acted out. There were the obligatory comic skits, one of which was "Finding Nemo: Reloaded". It was funny, though I'm sure it would've been more so had I seen either movie.