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...commercial theater finds room for Hamlet or The Master Builder -- although even Rodgers and Hammerstein did not confuse themselves with Shakespeare and Ibsen. The pleasure can be the same whether the effort is a shrine built to the original, as in 1990's unimaginative but impeccable reproduction of Fiddler on the Roof, or a piece of fey revisionism such as 1992's cartoon reconception of Guys and Dolls, which turned into the hottest ticket in town and helped spark this season's spate. Sometimes a revival is so extensive it's treated as new, like 1992's Crazy...
There are two startling passages in another new off-Broadway play, the keenly observed if scattershot Sophistry, set on a college campus. One features Austin Pendleton, whose credits stretch back to Fiddler on the Roof and Oh, Dad, Poor Dad. The other belongs to Anthony Rapp, 21. When they meet as teacher and student in a sexual encounter that degenerates into a harassment charge, Rapp's blend of rocketing energy and terror turned bravado rules the stage...
...bumpy. Hartford Stage mounted a different-looking version last fall that Lincoln Center pledged to bring to Broadway but then reneged on. With less than three months left in the season, Fran and Barry Weissler, who have won three Tony Awards by mounting star-package revivals like 1990's Fiddler on the Roof with Topol, decided to make this no-stars gay story their first new musical. Says Fran, a grandmother: "This was a big departure for us, our usual investors and our usual audiences. Half of the money in the show ((it cost $950,000 to mount, about...
Backstage, the legendary Cajun fiddler Dewey Balfa, 65, waits his turn to go on, a red plastic crawfish dangling from the neck of his violin. He speaks of the "great migration" -- the expulsion of the French Acadians from Canada in 1755 -- as if it happened yesterday. "What they brought here is still alive in our culture and our love for each other," he says. "I'm an American, but I don't want to lose my French identity...
...from Los Angeles to London. In the new, eighth edition, everyone shines. Susanne Blakeslee zings Julie Andrews' singing on the Tony Awards in I Couldn't Hit That Note. Mary Denise Bentley skewers Tyne Daly's performance as Mama Rose in Gypsy. Herndon Lackey is a melodramatizing Topol in Fiddler on the Roof, and Jeff Lyons is Jackie Mason -- but more...