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They say wrenching portrayals by Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley set "a new standard for crackerjack Broadway teamwork" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Others call the score, by Dreamgirls writer Henry Krieger, un-catchy and uneven.
It's often wrenching anyway.
"For many years after the war, the government and people of Japan made no real effort to understand the wrenching experience of war and the anguish of those in other countries," it said.
For 30 years now, audiences hoped he'd serve up wrenching, emotional music--his version of "Mother" from "Plastic Ono Band"--and it just doesn't seem to be in his nature.
The book, Said's 17 th , is a wrenching, intimate account of growing up in Cairo's wealthy Levantine expatriate community, of summering in the dreary Lebanese resort town of Dhour el Shweir, and of visiting the family home in Jerusalem, sometimes for as long as several months.