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...MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO...
...moving situation. This complicated mix of emotions is elicited by many milestones in the passing of a lifetime: falling in love, marriage, a new dead baby, A new dead baby? Well, yes, according to Christopher Durang. In his wacky, witty and surprisingly moving play, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, now playing at the Hasty Pudding Theater, the arrival of any baby, whether alive or dead is an excellent excuse for big tears as well as big laughs...
...Marriage of Bette and Boo is essentially a tweaked autobiography of the deeply troubled marriage of Durang's parents, and of the difficult years he had growing up in a less-than-perfect family. Along with a stream of stillborns, Durang drags onstage a number of horrifying events which would normally only be fodder for serious family dramas (including alcoholic fathers, sexist inlaws, overbearing mothers, bitter siblings, ruined holidays, ineffective counseling, desperate mothers and the death of aging parents), shows them in all their horrible glory, and manages to somehow leave the audience in stitches...
...most people, Thanksgiving evokes memories of turkey, cranberries, football, and kindergarten Pilgrim plays. For a lot of us it also means dealing with oddball Uncle Bob and other assorted weird relatives. The A.R.T., inspired by this phenomena, presents The Marriage of Bette and Boo at the Hasty Pudding Theatre. With any luck, youll find a few characters at least a little odder than your parents. 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 2 and 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday, 2 p.m. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 10 Holyoke...
...song "Man From Mars," for instance, she doesn't delve at all into this tumult of her recent times. Instead, she talks about her cat. While her cat (painted by Mitchell on the album art) does inspire a certain poignancy--as Mitchell earnestly describes it, a "big boo-hoo"--one wonders why she is hiding behind easy words, insubstantial synthesized sounds and--worst of all--lukewarm emotions...