Word: clarinets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Guttmann served as co-chair of the Amnesty International chapter here and also works as a supervisor at the University Lutheran Church shelter for homeless. She was on the sailing team and plays piano and clarinet...
WHAT THE NEW Ehrlich Theatre's production of The Lady and the Clarinet needs is a big dose of Tylenol...
Presented as a series of reminiscences, The Lady and the Clarinet centers around the character of Luba (Elissa Forsythe), a woman unable to find happiness in her love life as she looks back at her three most important romantic involvements. The play begins with the entrance of the clarinet player (Darryl Durham), a musician whom Luba has hired to provide background music for a dinner date at her apartment. Throughout the play, the clarinet player functions as a low-budget, on-stage orchestra to help fill in the many slow moments. The musician also does double duty as a backdrop...
After an interminable period of forgettable bantering--to which the clarinet player says nothing but only smiles or nods occasionally--Luba confesses that there have really only been three men in her life, and we arrive at the meat of the play. As she begins to reminisce about Paul, the young man with whom she lost her virginity, the doorbell rings. Surprise, surprise: we are now witnessing a reenactment of the fateful event...
...high point of the play. In fact, Brian Howe truly outclasses the rest of the cast, not only in energy but also in his breadth of emotion. In fact, the Jack/Luba scene could stand by itself and still be a more worthwhile production than The Lady and the Clarinet as a whole. Unfortunately, the slothlike pacing of the rest of the play also plagues this scene, and too much of a good thing eventually begins to wear on the audience...