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...says "drawing" out of force of habit. At any rate, it is done with line. (It has to be, since Salle has no discernible sense of color: his range goes from putty to nasty anilines, but in this show a washed-out gray is the key.) Drawing, as anyone who has seen a few Salles knows, is not what the artist does. He never learned to do it, and probably never will. He is incapable of making an interesting mark. The line has all the verve of chewed string. It starts here and finishes there, but that...
...director, Heather Cross deftly exploits the comedic as well as the tragic aspects of Chekhov's script. Fyodor Ilich Kulygin (Glenn Kessler) begins each of his scenes by asking for the whereabouts of his wife, Masha (Patricia Goldman). This habit, funny at first, becomes tragic as Kessler is revealed to be a man hopelessly trying to deny the grim reality of his loveless marriage. The alienation of the characters in The Three Sisters becomes so forceful at the production's conclusion precisely because it appears so harmlessly amusing in the play's opening scenes...
...soon, you find that you're doing a lot more of it and getting a lot less satisfaction. Your friends, teachers and parents begin to notice the classic symptoms of abuse: apathy about school, a sudden drop in grades, hanging out with a different crowd, the paraphernalia of your habit left lying about your room...
...agony of defeat and the shame of abandonment -- and that ends in thwarted love and suicide -- seemed a risky business. Suppressing an impulse to premiere the show directly on Broadway, something he had never done, Mackintosh tried Miss Saigon in the West End, where theatergoing is a steadier habit and Vietnam guilt is not a local concern. He then relied on word of mouth among U.S. tourists to build up a buzz. By now it is a crescendo, enough to let him catapult Broadway's top single-show price to $100, a level previously limited to scalpers, for each...
Wilder at least has the benefit of incumbency. Only 15 months ago, he made history by becoming the nation's first black elected Governor. But residual racism will be a problem for him, as will his lack of foreign policy experience, disdain for political organizing and habit of picking quarrels with powerful Democrats just to keep in fighting trim. Some insiders believe that Wilder's real aim is to become the vice-presidential nominee...