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...gleefully bumbling doctor straight out of vaudeville. Nance Williamson as Lee is a perfectly caffeinated, bleached blonde graduate from cosmetology school. Mary Diveny's Ruth, unfocused, distracted, nearly helpless, is compassionately endearing. Mark Rosenthal's sincerity renders eloquent even the rather generic words of the rebellious teenager Hank: "people start thinking of you a certain way--and pretty soon you're there...
Director David Petrarca is meticulously attentive to the strengths of both the text and the actors. The scene between Bessie and Hank on a warm Florida night and the one between Hank, his mother, and his psychiatrist at the mental institution, are beautifully staged. Petrarca directed the world premiere of Marvin's Room in 1991 at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, where he is currently resident director, and then continued with the show to the Hartford Stage Company, Playwrights Horizons, off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theatre, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington...
...folk spirit in her recent Sweet Old World (Chameleon/Elektra), and an intrepid small record company in New Jersey called Bar/None has a real comer in Freedy Johnson. His album, titled Can You Fly, features the idiosyncratic singer-songwriter stalking his own subconscious, sounding like a cross between Hank Williams (on The Mortician's Daughter) and a skid-row Springsteen (on We Will Shine). John Prine had a wonderful new album a few months back, The Missing Years (Oh Boy), and Luka Bloom's The Acoustic Motorbike (Reprise) is like Celine in high spirits. It's all enough to make...
...style, to Dylan's debut album, but the performances have 30 years of rough roads and lively living to underscore them. His version of Stephen Foster's Hard Times Come Again No More has a lifetime's impacted melancholy and sense of fragile hope. Similarly, Neil Young's From Hank to Hendrix, about a man who measures all the seminal events of his personal history against a pop panorama, has both a youthful brio and a hard-won autumnal perspective...
...problems of the inner city have touched you recently, which is likely, then you must sense that something needs to happen. Reading Chuck D's and Hank Shocklee's media-hyped jabber in Spin and buying Kriss-Kross records does not solve anything--it just gives middle and upper-class consumers some temporary mental satisfaction about their own efforts to be good citizens...