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Like any melange of little shows tied together by a moral string, this production has its ups and downs. It succeeds when the more talented troupe members play off one another as they move about Peter Miller's functional (if noisy) set. Sam Samuels, Courtney B. Vance and Ralph J...
It is frightening how much David Mamet knows about this perverse mating dance, this conflict between the it and the ego. What, has he spent his life in sticky piano bars that draw only lost stewardesses, old mailmen and dead celebrities? His ear for dialogue, for real speech by people...
It would be unfair to describe the resolution of this ancient script except to say that it is happy. The chief joy of this production is not the plot, in any case, but the amusing game of thrust and parry carried on by Joan Plowright and Frank Finlay as Filumena...
When it comes to tweaking a nose -liberal, moderate Republican, even a lofty, aquiline proboscis like his own-no one is more skilled. Editor of National Review, host of Firing Line, syndicated columnist and author of half a dozen political treatises and collections of essays, William F. Buckley Jr. has...
The music is amiable rather than memorable, and the choreography is spirited rather than inspired. But Gregory Hines is delightful as a sly, streetwise Scrooge. "Somebody's gotta be the heavy," he sings in his opening number, and old Ebenezer had better be that some body. Hines is well...