Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THERE-ANY-WAY-YOU-CAN RIBBON goes to UNH catcher Dave Bettencourt for being the only Wildcat to reach base against Don Driscoll in last Monday's NCAA championship game. Bettencourt's 'hit' was a hard shot off Driscoll's leg that LaCivita could not possibly make a play on in time...
JASON MILLER's That Championship Season aced the competition on Broadway last year, finishing up with the Pulitzer Prize for drama, the New York Drama Critics' Award, and the Tony. Unfortunately, the cast of the touring company playing now in Boston can't do justice to the brilliant tragi-comedy of Miller's play. The tense moments of the play slip by with long pauses that are more tedious than suspenseful and the intensity of the actors' emotional outbursts is rarely in keeping with the dramatic mood that has been created on the stage. Working together, the five actors fail...
...power of Miller's writing is apparent even in the unsteady Boston production. The disturbing questions which the play raises about the meaning of success and happiness are still discernable. Unfortunately, the actors have added nothing to the impact of Miller's already forceful text. They have taken his championship game plan and forfeited their chances for success by failing to spend enough time learning their plays and practicing their teamwork...
...other hand, Jason Miller's That Championship Season--at the Colonial Theater in Boston--is certainly worth seeing. When I saw it in New York a few years back, I kept thinking about this basketball star in my high school who disappeared for awhile after finally o.d.ing midway through my junior year--it was a little incongruous, since the forgotten high school basketball stars in the play are mostly pushing 40, more or less respectable, and concerned because basketball's no longer a "white man's game." Maybe as a result of this confusion, I wasn't as impressed...
...Wasserman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest--at the New Theater just down the street--is another fine play with some similar strengths, about a Christ-figure getting himself crucified by the authoritarian Big Nurse and timid inmates of an insane asylum. I'd go with That Championship Season--it's more naturalistic and strikes even closer to home, I'd say--but maybe that's just my mood...