Word: dolls
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...while View is sprinkled with pop (including a doo-wop quartet and a Puccinified version of Paper Doll), Bolcom has succeeded in smelting many disparate styles into a tightly unified idiom all his own. There are times when the openhearted lyricism of a Leonard Bernstein would have been welcome, but the lean, laconic score keeps the action moving, lending Miller's kitchen-table naturalism a freshening touch of poetry. Add in Josephson's star-quality performance as Eddie, the exemplary staging of Frank Galati (who directed Broadway's Ragtime) and Santo Loquasto's angular set--the Brooklyn Bridge as painted...
Imagine you are holding one of those Russian pottery dolls, the ones that open to reveal a slightly smaller, otherwise identically fashioned doll inside. Open that one and you find another, then another, until there are no dolls left...
This time, though, there is no doll inside. In its place, you find a heap of warm, pulsating goo. You stare...
...somewhere beyond the profit motive ought to be the impulse to spread joy. The TS2 directors have that impulse and share it recklessly. Building on the first film's wit and goodwill, they've created vivid new creatures, including one--the pert, hyperventilating Jessie--who is a real doll (batteries not necessary...
...takes place on the desert set of a Hollywood extravaganza, as two brothers fight for the hand of a perky assistant director. Kristin Chenoweth, a Tony winner for last season's revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, is cute, if a bit overcooked, as the Kewpie-doll A.D. But the jokes are bad, the physical comedy repetitious, and the Hollywood satire 40 years outdated. Co-author Crane was one of the creators of Friends. If this is what TV people think Broadway needs, the theater is in more trouble than we imagined...