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U2 com 'Alumnus Stephen Brown att May 16 concert at Death Valle about the experience. STEPHEN BROWN Special to the Can So what exactly is up with that standing front and center as international mega-pop group U2 Is it a canny tribute to corporat cynical stab at the rock group's ov, past? A "U" upside-down? Or, a ga future of rock V roll? I suspect it's a little of all thei sprinkled with a soaring nostalgia f and stories and a yearning for the en coaster that screeches forward wit of a new album and tour. The arch ai represent a grown-up taste of \ imagination ? a re-invention of a p wheel by a band that keeps gettin) its own original version of the real On Friday, May 16, these Dub rock superstars shed any semblt im DXaMONOBOOK Outlook i $199 w/ Coupon | Five Points 616 Harden Street rtohwwn RlfKinm ? 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A ^ introspective music the band has i rti ponderous teway to the U2 made a surprise entrance from , much to the delight of fans who were se e ements, i^ foursome to emerge from back or past songs quartet strutted their way on stage to Handler pounding sounds of "M0F0" fiom their lai the launc p T/?a/l vocalist Rnnn siiffprintrtViP id the concert sKght laryngitis, bellowed with redder vhimsy and superstar he's become and re jertectly good jj0W juS ]ate mother would perceive 'better than Then, the band made a sly segue h their first hits, "I Will Follow." This song lm-spawned gome Qf g^g isSues of fame and 1 mceot their Bono has been struggling with during th aiMONDBdCK Bi OJCLt C?MT?R DIAAWDBACK = B?ST D?AL IN TOWN St. Andrews 2719 Broad River Road (Across from Bum's Factory Outlet) 798-7799 1 arm Clock J Your Alarm Cli ff-Campus i @ Whaley's ) I Mi" ( a Shower ! STUDENT SLE i i i to class ; student sle i king for a j STUDENT STII ing Place Hooking ! STUDENT GOI ing Place < 211 Main St. ^jL urs - Mon.-Fri. 9:30 - 5:30^1 i ETC. icle of ligli i reigning of his career, ley. All band members were firmly sses to an poker-faced Edge, conjuring up ? spectacle, between his fingers and guitar strir 1, a lemon- bassist Adam Clayton and drumme ed cocktail who appeared to be having more futuristic with the band's flirtation with tri rd screen, dance music. The band was neve: it intimate complemented, by an additional jerformed giant screen behind them that fla of their performance to the stadii . midfield, U2 peppered an almost comple expecting of Pop along with audience favor 3tage.lhe (In the Name of Lovef and The Jos the pulse- "Where the Streets Have No Nt Est album Without You" and "I Still Haven strains of Fm Looking For." 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Instead, the 1 't Found What of Pop tunes and greats Achtung Baby The two encores w crooning of the emerged from the mete Dunded out the crowd with a mixed bag < the offerings were "Dis tango with an twist of "Mysterious Waj * a highlight of a fantastic rendition of ti t the Blue Sky," 1p tVint pnrlnfipH m Theater p dated Tanta GHT! 1RREN Staff Writer KS iatre has staged a musical for the young an if you're anything in between, mer brings you The Fantasticks," a romai fall in love and lose their naivete discove . The boy and girl live next door to each ( wall between the two houses to keep then: it secretly and fall in love. But, little do ti I hoping the children would fall in love an y focuses on the coming of age of the two t the musical, they dream of marrying am ver, in the second act the two choose to sep I be as exciting as the books they've read, nters society and is immediately kidnappe jjected to public torture. Las a love aflair with a bandit, who shows h 1 be beautiful if she looks at it through a cal number "Round and Round" is a comm lass to the suffering of the lower class. Wht e's able to separate herself from the tortur stead finding it "amusing." ! bandit abandons the girl, stealing a neckl Doy and girl meet again and decide they v irorld. lical, created by 'Ibm Jones and Harvey ? Bernard College in 1959. A year later, thi tillage, and was later billed the longest i 1 issues the story touches on are profound, ai die play was first presented. However, 1 f tlie stray combined with the outdated writi } for children, who will enjoy the periodic TO nusic izing cage of lights. Bono i impromptu tunes like Stand By Me" within the I more rehearsal on their Bono scored a hit with iny of "Gone," he sounded Vill Send His Angels," a antly better on the album, rrent smash "Staring at jveral words while tiying itar. he ambience featured on or the politically-chaiged band stuck to a package jst hits. ere fitting as the band illic lemon to dazzle the )f danceable funk. Among cotheque" and a techno re." Later they performed heir Batman Forever hit CONCERT page 10 resents sticks' d the old alike, but dont itic comedv about a hnv J J iring just how cruel the >ther, but their parents i apart. tiey know, their fathers d get married, nain characters. In the d escaping to a fantasy arate and see the world, d by two men who force ter that all of the world's mask he has given her. entaiy on the immunity ;n the girl looks through e the boy is being forced ace that belonged to her /ant nothing to do with ichmidt, was originally e story made if s way to running musical in the id certainly revolutionary own 1 heatres botched og make the performance : drama, and those who >WN THEATRE page 10