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...vote? 2004: An Election Year Odyssey, an original one-act play performed this past weekend in the Adams House Pool Theater, attempted to answer this question with a Dickens’ Christmas Carol-like pastiche of history lessons, reworked Broadway show tunes, forced rhymes, and both good and bad jokes...
...HRDC mainstage production of Lanford Wilson’s Balm in Gilead (directed by Scott Zigler, co-directed by Ben D. Margo ’04) is solid, entertaining, and professional theater. Set in ‘an all-night coffee shop on Upper Broadway in New York City, October 1965’ Gilead offers a snapshot of a grimy metropolis populated by lowlifes and outcasts, all struggling to make a living and deal with the sadness of their lives. In the middle of the mess of it all, a young prostitute and a reluctant pusher find each other...
...first tackled the subject in his 1964 autobiographical play After the Fall. Critics savaged it ("A shameless piece of tabloid gossip," wrote Robert Brustein in the New Republic), particularly its scorching portrayal of the sexy, unstable singer so clearly modeled after Monroe. A Broadway revival earlier this year was almost equally reviled. You'd think Miller would let sleeping sex symbols lie. But now, 40 years later, he has revisited his marriage in yet another play, Finishing the Picture, an account of the making of The Misfits, the 1961 movie Miller wrote for his wife, which turned...
...savior of the West End musical. In a lackluster season in which new shows like Bat Boy and The Beautiful and the Damned posted early closing notices, no show has been more hyped than The Producers, the smash American musical comedy that in its three-year Broadway run has raked in $193 million and won a record 12 Tony awards. With opening night set for Nov. 9 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, posters and playbills were printed up headlining Richard Dreyfuss, who would be taking the leading role in London as Max Bialystock, a shyster showman who puts...
...show's loss is also its gain, because rushing to the rescue is the acclaimed Nathan Lane, who originated the role of Max on Broadway, and will replace Dreyfuss for three months. (The good news: based on the first preview, Lane's fabulously manic, archly knowing interpretation is intact.) After his stint, Lane will leave to shoot the movie version of The Producers. The cast has already felt the difference. Says leading lady Leigh Zimmerman, "We've all been ready to move up a gear for a couple of weeks but couldn't. Now with the fire Nathan brings...