Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite this rejection, fratboy and friend were not fazed. During "Lovefool," the Cardigan's paean to foolish love, they slowly inched their way through the crowd, the scrawny boy sitting atop the shoulders of the stout one, with the apparent intention of obtaining that kiss. Persson coldly avoided all eye contact. This reviewer was personally hoping they'd make it all the way, but the fratboy duo were unfortunately bogged down mere feet from the stage...
...production opens by introducing the smiling Mother (Raebecca Eichenberger) and Father (Cris Groenendaal) who, along with Little Boy (Nathan Keen), Mother's Younger Brother (Aloysius Gigl) and Grandfather (Austin Colyer) round out the white upper-class upstate New Yorkers. The audience is also introduced to Coalhouse Walker Jr. (Lawrence Hamilton), a talented Harlem pianist, and his captivating lover Sarah (Darlesia Cearcy); as well as to the fanatically patriotic immigrant Tateh (Michael Rupert) and his Little Girl (Jenell Slack). The three groups of people--the WASPs in frilly white, of course; the Harlem natives in deep burgundies and blues...
...really necessary, then, to divulge the hackneyed plotline? Well, just for the record, boy overcomes some personal demons (and one truly satanic coach) to win that one great ballgame. Of course, there's the obligatory big speech and the even bigger game-winning play. So when it comes to making a movie where the ending is painfully clear from the opening shot, it's the little variations in the cardboard characters that make it slightly easier to stomach...
...devoted to the study oftraditional Jewish texts. They are exposed to amore radical brand of Orthodoxy, and they do notknow whether change is good, or what change meansfor their unformed identities. Some of the boyschange more than others; some put up a brave frontto protect themselves from change; one boy, it isalleged--and here's the ostensible dramaticmotivation for the play--commits suicide becausehe is confused and distressed by the Yeshivaatmosphere...
...headlines on the Israeli papers Friday--the thick, multi-sectioned equivalent of the Sunday ritual back home--had tabloid fronts of the king in his kaffeyiah, the red-and-white checkers falling over the fold, and a young Jordanian boy kissing this official portrait on the streets of Amman. In the moments before the news blackout that is Shabbat here, the prime minister's office said all Israel wished well for the royal family; on Saturday, many synagogues included the king's name in the prayers for the sick. Sunday, when the king died, Israel was one of the first...