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Curse of the Starving Class, a 1977 Shepard work, has been powerfully revived off-Broadway in a production that demonstrates it may be his best play. Shepard charts with savage humor the cruelties exchanged among a grindingly poor rural family. Slaughtering their animals has inured them to violence. Sharing the isolation of farm life has made them eager to sneak off. Knowing one another's sore spots has only rendered their aim more deadly. The plot resembles the save-the-homestead movies released last year: the farm is hopelessly insolvent but is sought by developers. Shepard, however, does not indulge...
...their best skills especially for him, and they are his favorites. "Do you know what [Houston's] Nolan Ryan told me the other night? He said, 'I hope it's me pitching the day you're going for the record. You can look for the fast ball right down Broadway in the express lane.' I can just see him pulling up his straps for me now. 'Let's play a little hardball...
They first performed together in the 1946 production of Lute Song. Critics praised Mary Martin but took little note of a young actress named Nancy Davis. Last week Nancy D. Reagan returned to the Broadway stage to pay tribute, along with Robert Preston, Lillian Gish, Carol Channing and Helen Hayes, to Martin, and the response this time was thunderous applause. The First Lady instantly won over the capacity audience by announcing, "I'm a little out of my element. I really don't go around the White House singing." Then, her clear alto voice quavering a bit, she began...
Suppose you wanted to stage a Broadway flop and were casting around for surefire bad ideas. What would you think of? Well, how about this: 15 mostly middle-aged and sometimes portly Argentines dancing the night away in that hoary old favorite, the tango. Add to that four singers declaring their sorrows in Spanish and an orchestra heavy on bandoneons (a type of accordion), and the marquee might as well say DISASTER. Indeed, when such a show was first mentioned to Choreographer Juan Carlos Copes, he answered, reasonably enough, "You must be crazy." But reason does not always prevail...
...that rare feeling of a genuine emotional encounter between male and female that probably best explains the show's success. "The thought of going to New York was frightening," says Orezzoli. It was a little bit of a kamikaze decision." On such decisions are fortunes made. The Broadway run, originally scheduled for five weeks, has been extended at least through New Year's, and after New York, Tango will make an extensive North American tour. The dancers want the whole world to love those crazy steps. "The tango is the star of the show," asserts Elvira Santa Mar?...