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Douglas Watt:  "James Rado has a definite feel for stage music and good-timey sounds in particular."

 

William A. Raidy headline: "There's Gold in RAINBOW"

 

Charles Orlando, Naked News:  "RAINBOW's a fucking good show. 

 

RAINBOW seems to be made out of the very effulgence of the heavens, where dreams are born. 

It's a modern  PETER PAN. 

 

                           Rado wants to love through his song.

                           And his Rainbeams are the stardust and song-

                           glitters of tribal love that sheds true tears for the

                           violence done to the children of God.

 

                           "RAINBOW is funky too.  After all, its takes its juice

                           from the Cannabis plant...funky, campy, sexy,

                           bouncy with the rhythms of light rock music...

                           Man is risen from the dead, his re-birth in

                           Rainbeam heaven..."

 

Ernest Albrecht,

New Brunswick, NJ:  "Musical number rolls over musical number with

                           tidal wave force...Rado emerges as one of the

                           theater's most versatile composers.  His score is a

                           vivid pastiche that ranges from Grand Ole Opry to

                           Twenties' syncopation through rock and Rodgers.

                           This is exciting theater music, music that has

                           tremendous power and drive...triumphant score.

                           As an ensemble, the casts produces a sound far

                           more vibrant and electric than Broadway's best-

                           schooled choral work...Nancy Potts has contributed

                           a motley wardrobe that is gloriously comic and

                           fantastic, and James Tilton has opened up the

                           tiny stage of the Orpheum Theater as if he has

                           just created a new universe."

 

Frederic C. Weiss:  "RAINBOW is a fast-paced, exciting, and

                           joyful new rock musical which consists of song

                           after song of love, life and hope for a world which

                           needs it, at a time when people are ready to reach

                           for it...while I can't really say it is better than HAIR,

                           it is safe to say that I enjoyed it much more...its

                           value as an entertainment and a showcase for

                           talent lives on."