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...year-old Bird will be much more than the Pacers' coach. Like Pitino and the Celtics and Pat Riley and the Heat, the very identity of the Pacers is now indistinguishable from that of Larry Bird. Which is exactly how the Pacers like it. The self-described "hick from French Lick" is an institution in Indiana, nearly to the degree he has been in Boston. Yet it is perhaps fitting that the Celtics should lose such an integral part of their tradition and identity at just this moment. They are Rick Pitino's Celtics now, the man Bird recruited...
Halfway during the first act, August's eccentric, hypochondriac sister Delia Eriksen (Dana Gotleib) comes to live with them. The owner of the house in which they are all staying, the loveable and amusing backwoods hick Chad Jasker (Andrew Pitcher), is also always hanging around. Although there is obvious tension between August and Delia and obvious lust between Chad and Jean, everything is subtle. And for the most part, everyone gets along quite nicely...so nicely, in fact, that the audience is in danger of falling asleep...
...really exciting watching them [Hick and Kim] pull it out," Rioter said...
...energy sometimes overwhelms her sense of timing and delivery. Liz Amberg and Rosalie Parker are memorable as the ill, subsequently dead Grandmother Mallard and the sexually charged, Coke-guzzling Romanian receptionist. Brett Conner deserves special mention for his hilarious performance eked out of a small role as the hick accompanying SuzyBelle to her cotillion...
...Junction Town, Kansas, which is referred to bitterly by Himiko Hamilton (Haewon Huang) as a "hick town," the play revolves around a tea ceremony attended by four Japanese war brides (five, if you include one who is there in spirit, quite literally). The action takes place almost entirely in the home of Himiko, who has just died. Through the differing reactions of the characters to the significance of tea, Houston reveals the life stories of each them...