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...minority. This gay-straight conflict, subtly mused on, lifts Terrence McNally's LIPS TOGETHER, TEETH APART beyond tragicomic tone poetry about the lonely vagaries of wedlock. Since the play opened last month off-Broadway, the foursome have been exquisitely played by Nathan Lane, Anthony Heald, Swoosie Kurtz and Christine Baranski. Alas, both actresses depart this week for other commitments. The replacements are estimable -- Roxanne Hart for Kurtz, Deborah Rush for Baranski -- but it is hard to imagine that the emotional journey, all around the world on one sun deck, can be the same. -- W.A.H...
Elliot Loves, which opened off-Broadway last week in an elegant staging by Mike Nichols, starts with a solo lament by a middle-aged man (Anthony Heald) on the verge of proposing marriage. It ends with him and his intended (Christine Baranski) having their first really honest conversation, via the telephone. Safely alone, if groping toward connection, they engage in dialogue by means of shared soliloquy. In the middle, the woman meets the man's old high school buddies -- an encounter that the lovers interpret in opposite ways and analyze to oblivion. Feiffer deftly satirizes self-awareness and communication, even...
ELLIOT LOVES. Mike Nichols directing, Jules Feiffer writing and two-time Tony- winner Christine Baranski acting. How wrong can you go? This tale of mid- life crisis-cum-romance is at Chicago's Goodman, but can Broadway...
...crass accountant and his smug wife. Ken Howard and Lisa Banes have striking moments as a would-be state senator and his disenchanted spouse. But the other couples -- Andre Gregory and Joyce Van Patten as a spaced-out therapist and his oddball wife, and Mark Nelson and Christine Baranski as neurotic lawyers -- derive from TV rather than life. Gene Saks, who won two Tony Awards directing the trilogy, finds few nuances here. W.A.H...
...entourage. It seems to be the only cliche he has avoided. He does his predawn roadwork by himself on the boardwalk, grateful for the solitude. "I don't have any friends. I get paranoid around a lot of people. I can't relax." Besides Rooney and Cutman Matt Baranski, only Steve Lott is admitted to the inner sanctum. "I'm the spit-bucket man," Lott says with shining eyes. "I would give my life for that." He was a handball buddy of Jimmy Jacobs', an honored player who died at 58 last March, reportedly of leukemia. Jacobs and his business...