Word: dunaway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faye Dunaway belongs to this breed. After a 17-year absence in Hollywood, she returns to Broadway's Little Theater with a vehicle no sturdier than balsa wood, but she never lets the audience forget that she is driving it hell-bent on its voyage to nowhere. Author William Alfred, Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of the humanities at Harvard, launched her on the road to stardom in his play Hogan's Goat, about political shenanigans among the Brooklyn Irish in the 1890s. Now back on the same turf, Alfred mounts a sentimental archaeological dig for nostalgic relics dating...
...Irish Brooklyn urchin who breaks off relations with her childhood guardians after her uncle, Jo-Jo forgets himself enough to kins her far too heatedly, on the night of her first date. Years later, after loneliness and marriage to a handsome neighborhood Romeo-turned-alcoholic, Fran, played by Faye Dunaway, finally 1masters the courage to face the past and reestablish contact with Jo-Jo (Bernie McInerney) in time of trouble. Music and flashback link the five vignetts, some of which are emotional, others farcical in their evocation of the intervals of misery, joy and boredom in Fran's life...
...rituals we never saw--when, indeed, this is Gert's first appearance on stage? What use that Gert, played by Beverley May, is as plump and wonderful and all-forgiving as society's collective grandmother, her perfect Brooklyn accent wrapping itself around the traditional phrases with a naturalness Faye Dunaway's inflections never even approach? What use, even, to give us the moment of Fran and Jo-Jo's traumatic kiss, if we are to learn two acts afterward that the final break between them came later, when she returned from the date in the wee hours and he raged...
Alfred and Dunaway worked together 16 years ago on Alred's last play. "Hogan's Goat," in a successful production which brought both national prominence. "Hogan's Goat" also takes place in South Brooklyn, where Alfred grew...
...Irish Brooklyn of the '20s and '30s, the play traces the early life of a working-class girl, played by Faye Dunaway. The production met mixed but generally negative reviews from the dailies yesterday...