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Hines, who doubles as the play's musical director, is the most engaging character as a meandering troubadour, and the most felicitous of the souls. The four main players do their best to hold all the pieces together, but come off looking lost and aimless because the material is only loosely unified. The play itself suffers the fragmented style at first, but, paradoxically, gains coherence gradually as Director Eric Engel forces a kind of passive audience participation...
WHAT DO WE KNOW OF the Kennedys? Better to ask: What don't we know? We know, ad infinitum if not ad nauseam, about the blackguard patriarch, the philandering but beloved President and his glamorous wife, their handsome son risen from the ashes of an aimless, if active, life to become a magazine editor. We know of their loves, their losses, their lapses and their favorite dressmakers. Flip through new memoirs by Gore Vidal and Benjamin Bradlee, and there they are again, appearing in vignettes that will be eagerly processed by a curious public...
Under the direction of Lawrence Sacharow, who received the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Direction for the New York production, the actresses utilize the entire space of the stage. The movements never appear overly staged or aimless; every action is natural and has a purpose. In the play's second act, the three women remain downstage as, behind them, the son sits at his mother's bedside. He remains mute the entire time, allowing the focus to stay on the three voices of this one woman. In reality, though, this son is Albee and the three voices...
...shouldn't romanticize the past. And a closing thought: If Marty, the lovelorn butcher from Chayefsky's teleplay, and his best friend Angie were to fall through a tear in the space-time continuum and wind up in 1995, they wouldn't have to run through their memorably aimless conversation: "What do you feel like doing tonight?" "I don't know, what do you feel like doing?" Today they'd just turn on The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or NYPD Blue and enjoy the best that contemporary American entertainment has to offer. What they would make of Dennis Franz...
...should know this comes from a Woman (yes, we're "women" now, "girls" no longer) whose first year was defined by aimless academics, pseudo-friendships and failed relationships as much as by anything else...