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Patricia (radiant Frances Conroy) seems more manic than depressive today. She has gone without her medication for three weeks, and is ready, maybe, to go home to her husband Leroy (stalwart John Heard) and their seven kids. Patricia wants Leroy, a carpenter who is descended from Alexander Hamilton, to be more successful and less complacent. And she seeks release from the ghosts of her golden youth. But wry or wistful, she speaks with the reckless lucidity of someone liberated from drugs and intoxicated by the impending peril of real life. "Sooner or later you just have to stand...
...Dartmouth--Brittany Bolinyin; Harvard--None. A: Dartmouth--Jessica Andre; Harvard--None. S: Dartmouth--Michelle Conroy 5; Harvard--Brooke Donahoe...
...even to common sense, and the jokes seem a quaint throwback to an earlier comedy era ("You can call me a doubting Thomas -- or you can call me Marlo Thomas . . ."). What makes it work is the zingy performances by Christine Ebersole (as feisty but lovable Nurse Gunn) and Kevin Conroy (as a conceited surgeon), two pros who tackle this fluff as if it were Moliere...
...story comes from Pat Conroy's autobiographical novel The Water Is Wide, recalling how, as a '60s burnout, he turned to teaching deprived black children on a backward island off the South Carolina coast. In the time- honored tradition of teacher-student tales, this man whom the kids call Conrack enriches not only their lives but also his own. Spurning conventional curriculum and methods, he gets his young charges to enthuse about his hero, Beethoven, and his other hero, soul singer James Brown. He instructs them to take pride in America's history and also in Africa's. Touchingly...
CONRACK. Novelist Pat Conroy (Prince of Tides) has helped turn his autobiographical tale, The Water Is Wide, about a young white teacher and rural black pupils, into a sweet Jon Voight movie and, now, a poignant musical at Washington's Ford's Theater...