FALLING STARS

In the fifth of Andrews’s Shooting Stars series, two actors, two musicians, a dancer, and a singer meet as new students at Senetsky's School of the Performing Arts, located in a gothic mansion in New York City. Former stage star Madame S. is a wizard at turning the merely gifted into the fabulously famous, using iron discipline. But when Honey Forman, a violinist who serves as the story’s narrator, sees what she thinks is a Peeping Tom outside her window and investigates, she uncovers glamorous deceit. Laurel Lefkow's range of accents adds color to the story and raises the listener's anticipation as the voices of young innocence clash shatteringly with those of adult arrogance and ambition. E.V. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/SEP 03]