Word: carvers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show also marks the Broadway baptism of Brent Carver, one of Canada's leading actors for a decade. As a fey, movie-obsessed interior decorator imprisoned for homosexuality, Carver far surpasses the cinematic performance of the role that won William Hurt a 1985 Oscar. In the less rewarding part of a revolutionary cell mate, Anthony Crivello acts with bluff intensity and sings with beauty and power. The men's cramped quarters and surrounding tiers of cagelike squalor become a park, a movie palace, a Russian alley, even a vast, symbolic spiderweb through inspired film projections by set designer Jerome Sirlin...
...well thought out as others. But Peck usually displays a full command of the different tones he employs. The short story format allows him to try on narrative voices that range from the biting to the lyrical, and he achieves effects that recall such very different writers as Raymond Carver and Willa Cather...
...title character -- sultrily sung and danced with eyebrow-high kicks by Chita Rivera at 60, an age when she qualifies for a senior citizen's London bus pass -- is pure fantasy, a bygone film goddess whose camp theatrics provide the personal mythology of the gay prisoner brilliantly played by Carver. When life becomes awful, he escapes into reveries of scenes from her films. And when life becomes truly unsustainable, he joins her forever in a brightly lit world of soft shoe and smiles. The real star, as so often, is Prince, whose staging tricks are as spectacular...
...very raw -- material is unlikely for song and dance. The setting is a Latin American prison cell shared by a man in for political insurrection (Anthony Crivello) and one in for the social insurrection of homosexuality (Brent Carver). This musical must be among the first to feature torture, mutilation and threats of anal rape and is surely the first to portray one character washing another after a bout of diarrhea. Book writer Terrence McNally and nonpareil lyricist Ebb make the points, not always beloved of the Marxist left represented by the revolutionary, that there is no political freedom without sexual...
Harvard didn't take home any hardware at last year's national meet--but look for Wainwright, Gouldson, and Carver to improve on their times and repeat as NCAA qualifiers...