Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special tribute to Broadway Producer Harold Prince, Ed will feature numbers from the hit shows Fiddler on the Roof and Cabaret...
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Elaine May is a corrosively perceptive satirist with a mean comic punch. Her off-Broadway one-acter Adaptation, the first of a double bill completed by Terrence McNally's Next, makes one laugh till it hurts, partly because the ache of recognition is in every line and situation. She has the wit to see that if Pavlov's dogs salivated at the tinkle of bells signifying food, modern man is not so very different. He salivates at psychological flash cards marked Emotional Maturity, Identity Crisis, Making a Commitment, as well as at traditional cues for action such...
...plays the adaptation game from birth to death, she elicits a performance that is laugh-and letter-perfect. Expressions cross his face like clouds scudding across the sky: hope, bewilderment, apprehension, chagrin, humiliation, and wild fleeting moments of joy. It is the year of the loser, on and off Broadway: Dustin Hoffman in Jimmy Shine, Woody Allen in Play It Again, Sam (see below). Gabriel Dell is the most endearing loser of them all. The rest of the cast act with infinite finesse to make Adaptation coruscatingly funny...
...Lecturers and entertainers, will be slotted. The Light Company Building may someday become the cultural complex that Leven had dreamed of--but it will do so without his show and without him. Next weekend, one of the backers will probably visit New York in search of a small, off-Broadway production that can serve as the core of a new effort...