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MP3 : Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire / Xena-We Can Work It Out (2000)

Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire / Xena-We Can Work It Out (2000)

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  • Titre : Xena-We Can Work It Out
  • Album : Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire
  • Année : 2000

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Draco and his band of thugs search ruins for a treasure. They find a golden lyre. As soon as they dig it up, a band of amazon appear and tell them that since the treasure is on amazon land, it belongs to them. They begin to skirmish. Xena intervenes, taking the lyre with her whip. The amazon leader and Draco exchange verbal insults, and swords are drawn. They all get ready to fight. Xena, with Gabrielle and Joxer, look on. Xena suddenly bursts into "War, good god ya'll, what is it good for?" and they sing the entire song as everyone joins in. After they finish singing, Draco wants to know who gets the lyre if there isn't going to be a fight over it. Xena says there will be a battle of the bands to win Harpsichord's lyre.

Everyone goes into a town, and everyone sings a huge production number. There are a lot of bands in town. Xena sends Gabrielle to audition the bands to see who makes the first cut. Xena's mother shows up and coos over Xena's big belly but she is concerned that there is no father.

Gabrielle auditions bands. They are all bad. Xena comes in, and then they hear the strains of a piano playing a latin disco. They go see, and Jace, Joxer's brother, is a lounge singer. He does a latin/disco/something version of "Dancing in the Moonlight". Xena and Gabrielle join in a conga line. Draco threatens Jace, apparently because he sings well or he's a pansy or something (it wasn't a memorable moment), and Xena threatens Draco for threatening Jace.

Joxer and Jace have a reunion and Joxer tells Jace to get away from him. Xena and Jace talk about how Joxer wants to be what he isn't. The amazon leader keeps flirting with Joxer. Joxer was talking to Gabrielle, who seems disturbed because Joxer is paying attention to someone else. The amazons rehearse their dancing and singing. Draco tries to talk to Gabrielle. Draco then has a daydream where he does rap/hard rock/something version of "Always Something There to Remind Me." During the daydream he walks through flowers with Gabrielle and they are in the hot tub. Draco swears to no one in particular that if he can't have Gabrielle, no one will have her.

The amazons watch Jace, and their leader thinks he is cool. Xena and Gabrielle talk about Joxer's latest infatuation, and Gabrielle says the leader isn't the right person for Joxer, and Xena tells Gabrielle that she shouldn't interfere if she doesn't want him.

During all this stuff guys keep coming up to Xena to audition for the part of husband and father because Xena's mother put up posters all over town.

Jace and Joxer talk again. Jace insults Joxer. Xena finds her mother, and then Xena and the amazons sing a song about "sisters" and how they don't need men in their lives. Jace shows up and applauds. Xena's mother says Xena has always marched to her own drummer, anyhow. But she still would like to know who the father is. There is no answer.

Draco whines about Gabrielle. Lots of people show up for the battle of the bands concert and the crowd starts getting rowdy because no one wants to go on first. Xena tells Gabrielle she'll take care of it and she disappears. Draco grabs Gabrielle, puts a sword to her throat, and asks her to marry him. He tells her she's part of his "act" now and she'll die at the end of his performance.

Draco and his band open with a rock song. Gabrielle is in a cage hanging from the ceiling. Draco has a flaming guitar. Somebody gives Gabrielle a rock and she tries to break out of her cage but can't. Draco tells Gabrielle goodbye. Xena appears, and plays part of the Xena theme on the lyre. Gabrielle escapes and jumps into the mosh pit. Another band, the amazons, I think, are playing portions of the Xena theme. Xena and Draco rap. They jump on top of people's heads and start fighting, like they did in Sins of the Past. They keep on rapping. They keep on fighting. Draco hits the floor with a guitar rendition of Xena's theme playing in the background. The amazon leader kisses Draco.

Gabrielle and Joxer talk. Gabrielle says it was strange seeing Joxer with someone else. Gabrielle says Joxer means a lot to her. Joxer tries to ask her for a date but Gabrielle says no way. The crowd chants for Xena. Jace tells Xena she won the lyre. Xena tells the crowd she is leaving the lyre in this musical town. The Xena and everyone sings "People want to be free, peace in the valley" (I'm not sure of the name of that particular song). Jace and Joxer join her. Gabrielle joins in and sings a verse, too. Gabrielle and Xena stand beside each other. The show ends on this song as a big production number.

# Posté le vendredi 15 février 2008 16:54

Modifié le vendredi 15 février 2008 17:48

MP3 : Sans titre (1995)

Sans titre (1995)

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  • Année : 1995

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After I stop laughing I think I will be able to do this commentary. I have not laughed this much in a long time. When I first read about the show, I was worried about it because one of my favorite episodes (if not the only favorite) of the third season is "The Bitter Suite". After such a great show I thought it would be hard to outdo it. I was wrong, I was so wrong.

This musical was just so well done. I have to applaud once again the writers of the show. Using a musical as a medium to send many messages about life and about tolerance to the audience in a very light, entertaining way was a very brilliant move on their part.

As I sit here writing, I am still chuckling at some of the musical numbers. When Xena breaks into the song about the war I could not believe it, but when they went into the rendition of "Bye, Bye Birdie", I almost fell on the floor laughing. I was waiting for them to go into a rendition from West Side Story, Carousel, Oklahoma, The Sound of Music, Grease. Then when Jace came out in that outfit and started to sing, I just could not stop laughing. The finale was just too good to be true. The rendition of "People Want To Be Free" with the whole cast (except Draco, of course) was in tune with a Vegas Show. Watching Gabrielle, Xena and Joxer let loose was something beyond what I would have ever imagined or dreamed. The final credits were completely unexpected, but definitely worthwhile. It was the perfect ending to a very entertaining show.

We, the audience, needed something like this after some very stressful and emotion-packed episodes. The need to be able to take a break, relax and enjoy some good, clean fun is necessary and this show gave us that. I for one am thankful.

I was very worried that because they have done so well during this season, they might do something to turn the tide on the show, but was I wrong! This show was just marvelous.

The acting could not have been better. That includes the leads and the visiting stars. It was just a perfect selection to have Draco be the villain in this show. Following his appearance in Comedy of Eros, I had missed him. He was the first major warlord Xena encountered and defeated on her path toward redemption. He was there midway in her life as a reminder (in a comedic way) that the past never goes away. Who better than Draco to step in and say I'm still here.

Well guys, with your indulgence I'm going to step on my soapbox for a few lines. What I'm going to say is my personal opinion and by no means reflects the opinion of "Whoosh". (Yeah, I know, I'm getting good at this disclaimer thing). For me, one of the most important messages or points that the show wanted to send was the fact that a child needs to be loved. It is true in a perfect world that for a child to have a father and a mother is wonderful. But many times, the family unit is made up of a mother, an aunt, a grandmother, a grandfather, a friend or anyone who cares enough to love and care for the child. As long as the child who is about to enter the world is loved and wanted, the composition of the family unit is irrelevant.

Many times society pushes the mother to marry the father of the child because it is the "right thing" to do. But those two people, in many cases, are not ready for that type of responsibility, or are not in love or are not strong enough to work every day to make the relationship work. They find themselves tied down "because of the child". By doing that, they are not happy and the child, in the long run, is the one who ends up paying the consequences for unhappy parents.

Xena's mother wanted Xena to have a husband because "all children need a father". By the end of the episode, she understood that having a father or a mother is not the essential thing for a child, but that the child is loved. As Xena said, she has Gabrielle, Joxer and her mother and her child will have all the love it needs.

Another thing this episode presented the audience is the idea of acceptance. We must learn to accept people for who they are and not be judgmental. (Like I have always said, when did God die and leave some particular group in charge) We all march to our own drum and that is what makes life so great and beautiful. If we were all the same, what a boring life this would be. Now back to our original program.

All in all, I found the show very entertaining, funny and, over all, very well done. The performances were right on the mark. I even enjoyed the fight between Xena and Draco on the shoulders and heads of the spectators. This was a great reminder of that very first fight between them and once again Xena got the upper hand.

Enjoyed the different versions of the show's theme and, over all, I really got a kick out of the credits and LL in her gogo dancer outfit in all her pregnant splendor. That takes a lot of courage and it also shows that LL is a very down to earth person with a great sense of humor.

So as I finish writing this commentary, I will, for the fourth time, take another look at the show and enjoy the fact that the people who made it meant to entertain us. They did a great job at it.

# Posté le vendredi 15 février 2008 16:41

Modifié le mardi 29 juillet 2008 12:09