Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HEIDI CHRONICLES. Playwright Wendy Wasserstein revisits the rise and fall of principle among baby boomers, and star Joan Allen makes the stereotypes come touchingly alive, off-Broadway...
...Pulitzer prizewinner Charles Fuller (A Soldier's Play) launches an earnest, poignant cycle of five black history dramas, beginning with Sally and / Prince, in repertory off-Broadway...
...November, decrying the foul atmosphere of the fall campaign. READ MY LICKS, headlined the Los Angeles Times in a story about the menu for an Inaugural reception this month. Christian Science Monitor reviewer John Beaufort could not resist pointing out the "thousand points of incandescent light" in the lavish Broadway musical Legs Diamond. Last week USA Today ran a story about the pre-Inaugural cleanup of Washington. The headline: A THOUSAND POINTS OF GLEAM...
Previews continued for nine weeks -- unusually long, but not a Broadway record -- as musical numbers, costly scenery, characters and whole subplots came and went. On some nights more than a hundred paying customers left at intermission or even during the performance. One couple who marched up the aisle during the second act seemed particularly weary of a plot device that has the hero, a tap-dancing gang leader, repeatedly fake his own murder. As the departing woman looked back at the stage, she whispered, "He's alive again." Muttered her companion: "Better he should have stayed dead...
Onstage, Legs tries to sidestep this problem by making Diamond a frustrated entertainer who gets into crime as a way of financing himself on Broadway. The character cannot be taken seriously, and neither can Peter Allen as an actor. A campy night-club entertainer who penned his own single-entendre lyrics for this show ("If you love me, let me see your knockers"), he brings a pervasive tone of self-mockery to every moment and is ludicrously dispassionate as a roguish ladies' man. Like most performers who customarily work solo, he seems unable to engage the audience in any guise...