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With this month's opening of Cate in New York, Webber now has three shows on Broadway (Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcont is the third). Each rolls onstage to packed houses, each rolls off leaving a wealthier producer. Perhaps the Harvard Corporation could convince Midas-touch Webber to compose a ditty of two for the University's fund-raising drive, though Derekim sounds too much like a banana to succeed anywhere outside Cambridge...
Reported by Jay Branegan/ Washington and Benjamin W. Cate/ Los Angeles
Reported by Frederick Ungeheuer/ New York and Benjamin W. Cate/ Los Angeles
...After 40 years of his benign companionship, his widow Nell doubts her ability to go it alone: "He protected me from so much ... from my harshest judgments of myself as well as of others." Strickland's death also catches his two daughters at awkward points in their lives. Cate, headstrong and twice divorced, is approaching her 40th birthday and teaching English at a small college in Iowa; like her previous school in New Hampshire, this one too seems on the verge of closing for lack of funds. And Lydia, the prim younger daughter and mother of two teen...
...make the three women who face them singularly interesting. They are all intelligent enough to wish, sometimes, that they were less so. Nell would like to blend comfortably into the extending circle of Southern widows in her town, but her acerbic side keeps her at a slight, disquieting remove. Cate periodically feels the urge to "lapse wearily" into a man's care and then bristles angrily at her own weakness. Lydia tries to organize herself into happiness, knowing that each new accomplishment will set the stage for another bout of worry and planning. Stubbornly, she pursues the dream...