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...show on 19th century Actor Edmund Kean to the West End. Griff Rhys Jones, who mugged his way to TV celebrity on the BBC's Not the Nine O'clock News, is conducting a valiant but vain effort to revive the corpse of Charley's Aunt. Most of the cast treats this 1892 farce as reverently as if they were playing Westminster Abbey; Rhys Jones, dressed for most of the play in widow's weeds, at least manages a passable impression of Margaret Rutherford imitating Queen Victoria...
...interesting or useful was Director Francis Cullinan's decision to cast a man, Bill Murphy, as the overbearing Lady Bracknell, Algernon's audacious and obnoxious aunt. If the aim was for some unusual dramatic effect, by the play's end this effect dissipates as Murphy becomes sufficiently convincing as a woman...
...AUNT ONCE TOLD me that after seeing Gone With the Wind for the 20th time, her heart still went aflutter when Rhett walked out the door at the end. And a friend of mine confessed that after seven viewings she still was grossed out by Harold's bizarre suicide attempts in Harold and Maude. Now I too belong to their fan club of repetition. After seeing HMS Pinafore--a Gilbert and Sullivan musical comedy--for the sixth time. I still thoroughly basked in its bubbly brilliance...
...Jersey justices may consider yet another potential landmark case. In November 1982 Thomas Whittemore requested the removal of a nasal feeding tube from his aunt, Claire Conroy, then 83, who was in a New Jersey hospital unable to speak or move and suffering from advanced heart disease. Her doctor refused to do it. "He said to me, 'Mr. Whittemore, you can't play God.' And I said, 'What are you doing? God's will is that this woman is ready to go. You're the one holding her back.' " Whittemore sought and received...
There are soap-operatic calamities in this extended family, complete with a widowed aunt (Joyce Van Patten), her restless older daughter (Jodi Thelen) and her coddled, sickly younger one (Mandy Ingber). But they are redeemed by Simon's abiding affection. In a character portrait in depth, Željko Ivanek, as Eugene's older brother, provides his panting sibling with a silver lining: not a Yankees uniform but a French postcard. This season's silver lining is Neil Simon's love letter to his past...