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...commercial breaks featured trivia questions and a costume contest, and the drink menu included Sterling Cooper Cocktails, Betty??s Bubbles, and Madison Avenues...
...blossoming romances—one between the middle-aged mafioso Alfio Turrisi and Betty, the daughter of his rival, and the other between theater director Tino Cagnotto and his paramour Bobo, an aspiring young actor. Both of these storylines play with Shakespeare’s own romantic plots. Although Betty??s father urges her to fall in love with Turrisi, she tells Turrisi that her father would be displeased with their relationship, at once holding Turrisi at bay without rejecting him and frustrating her father’s hopes for a quick engagement. Betty??s clever...
...they use P.O. boxes for their mail (“so the INS can’t find them,” as Enrique explains). We’re even introduced to poor Mexican-American college students Marta and David (played by America Ferrera of “Ugly Betty?? fame and Jesse Garcia from “Quinceaña”) who resort to taking illegals across the border for tuition money. It’s a credit to the filmmakers that the movie’s didacticism doesn’t feel unbearably contrived while...
Fairfield’s production uses an alternate version of the play, in which Betty??s monologue on masturbation, taboo and her slow self-discovery ends the production. The choice is well-justified if not simply for the bittersweet and exquisitely rendered moment from Weiss, which in a night of phenomenal performances, is delivered with so much humor, earnestness and humanity that it still shocks us with its simple, deeply genuine feeling...
...action begins with two women—the now grown up, “liberated” Victoria (played by Kiran Deol ’05, who was also Betty??s stuffy mother in Act I) and the working class lesbian Lin (Discepolo)—perched on a park bench in what used to be the veranda. Cozzens as Lin’s younger daughter makes for one of the most entertaining and appropriate cast choices, as the six-foot-plus actor has as much absurd physical presence as the rambunctious young girl has energy...