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...musical doesn't dwell on illness or turn preachy; it is too busy celebrating life and chronicling its characters' efforts to squeeze out every last drop of it. Tom Collins (Jesse L. Martin), a gay teacher, hooks up with Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia), a high-spirited transvestite. Joanne (Fredi Walker), a lesbian attorney, gets together with Maureen (Idina Menzel), a performance artist who has just broken up with Mark (Anthony Rapp), a video filmmaker who acts as the musical's narrator and guide...
...that their wedlock may not be legal and suddenly are able to reconsider, with the wisdom of hindsight, the choices of youth. Two browbeaten wives and one henpecked husband toy with ditching their spouses, a notion that is faintly feminist for its time. Fittingly, the best performances come from Fredi Olster and Joy Carlin as the resentful wives and the delightful Ruth Kobart as a domineering dragon. Randall Duk Kim has wit and charm as Kobart's newly disobedient husband, but in a ghastly miscalculation, his Asian features have been caked with ruddy makeup so thick it resembles house paint...
...hope that with the aid of enlightened governmental legislation within the next generation, I shall never again hear statements similar to the one made by a four-year-old neighborhood child to the effect that she is glad not to be colored because "Negroes aren't people." FREDI HÜBLER Old Tappan...