Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threatening or looming or tragic. The play, in fact, ultimately derives its strength not from the drama of its history but in spite of it. What is most engaging about the play is not the main plot but the subplot, not the tragic sequences tracing Stalinist repression but the comic theatrical sequences woven into the interstices. The comic representation of life at the Moscow Art Theatre and of the rise of Stanislavsky is hysterically funny and unremittingly enjoyable...
...mall, which lies between Tower Records andWordsworth Books, housed seven stores includingGnomon Copy, Little Russia, The Inside Corner, TheMillion Year Picnic-a comic book store, Woolcott &Co. the yarn store, Tumbleweed and Le FootSportif. The mall is now entirely boarded up, itsentrance roped off and surrounded by shatteredglass...
Kathleen Mullins is flawless as Mrs. Lovett, Todd's partner in crime. A Boston Conservatory student, Mullins is a brilliant comic actress as well as a good singer. In her first number, "The Worst Pies in London," Mullins sings an incredibly difficult song, stays in character and rolls out meat pies all at the same time. In a cast of varying English accents, Mullins' stands out as the most authentic...
...campy and needed to project more but his wide blue eyes and clear tenor are perfect for the waif befriended by Mrs. Lovett. Rendell, a Crimson contributing reporter, is a terrific actor and the complexity of her music allows you to forgive the occasional vocal lapse. With great comic instinct Feldman turns an unmemorable spear-carrier role into a scene-stealing portrayal...
...Clayton wonders why all this freedom left him and everyone close to him so anxious, addled and unhappy: "The present is Paradise, yet our brain forbids our living in it long." Beneath the comic excessiveness of his meditations can be glimpsed some somber spiritual shadows: "Everything was out of the closet, every tabu broken, and still God kept His back turned, refusing to set limits...