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MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! invites the literate mind to a banquet with a consistently ironic, sometimes macabre American wit. So thoroughly does Hal Holbrook immerse himself in the psyche of Clemens that his performance seems like an uncanny transmigration of souls.
Mount Clemens, Mich.
THEATER On Broadway MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! When Hal Hoibrook shuffles off the stage at the end of his one-man show, it is as if one were bidding good night to the incorrigible Clemens himself. As penetrating in spirit as it is physically uncanny, this performance is an extraordinary dramatic...
MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! When Hal Holbrook shuffles off the stage at the end of his one-man show, it is as if one were bidding good night to the incorrigible Clemens himself. An extraordinary physical impersonation and uncanny dramatic recreation of one of Americana's keenest humorists.
April being the cruelest month, Actor Hal Holbrook, 41, rummaged through the collected wit of Samuel Clemens and inserted an apt crack into his one-man virtuoso performance, Mark Twain Tonight!, at Manhattan's Longacre Theater. "What's the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector?" mused...