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This modernized, seemingly low-budget Comedy of Errors, thanks to the cast, can be best described as enthusiastic. The jarringly bad costumes and set certainly do not impress. The outfits look like dress-up clothes found in the back of a closet. The police officers inexplicably look like Hell's Angel rejects and the hookers look like Barbie dolls. Minimalist crepe-paper palm trees and a funky beaded curtain litter the stage. A God-only-knows-why velvet Elvis painting completes the perfect tackiness of the scene in the Leverett Old Library. But the acting is good enough to compensate...
...lunch in late May and there gave me a list of people to look up in England; he knew everyone there. During dessert, I remarked with a chuckle that the University was having trouble finding a place for me at Oxford and would probably stick me in a broom closet. My comment evoked what I took to be an insignificant "oh, really...
Perhaps a refurbished closet with all the accoutrements that straights would have--a separate-but-equal morality that dare not publicly speak its name...
...needed someone to collaborate with." After a rolling wave of cancellations, she took most of 1989 off before the Met debut, in order "to get things straight. Sometimes I wished the voice were like a violin, an instrument in a box -- and you could put the box in a closet." But the period of questioning is over. Time now to celebrate all those sad, mad girls in productions that just might suit. As the prima donna promises, "I'm just starting my prime...
ETHICS: "Outing" gays who stay in the closet...