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...handful of actors have enough box-office clout to get produced pretty much any show they want to appear in. One is George C. Scott, who last came to Broadway in 1986 as an aging, derelict Huck Finn in an unpopular bit of myth debunking called The Boys in Autumn. Now Scott is back as a quintessential foxy grandpa, all harmless cuss words and mock-fierce benevolence, in a sentimental 1938 comedy-drama about an old man's battle of wits with death, personified as the prissy bureaucrat Mr. Brink. Scott's new role may be at the opposite...
...staging is by Des McAnuff, who on Broadway guided Jenkins as Huck Finn in the musical Big River and shaped Blessing's comedy of U.S.-Soviet relations, A Walk in the Woods. This production inaugurates a new main stage at La Jolla Playhouse, outside San Diego, where McAnuff is artistic director. Neither the architect nor the playwright could ask for a more visually seductive showcase...
...answering machine at his 60-acre ranch in Sonoma County, Calif., Keen sings Cole Porter's Don't Fence Me In. Keen grew up in Alabama, Tennessee and Delaware ("more Huck Finn than Holden Caulfield," he says in his high- pitched foghorn of a voice) and has a doctorate in philosophy of religion from Princeton. His thesis concerned the idea of mystery. "I've always been interested in talking clearly about things that can never really be known," he says...
Mark Twain and Charlie Chaplin look-alikes, trailed by a freckle-faced Huck Finn, greet passengers as they come up the gangplank of the Mississippi River's newest paddle-wheeler, Emerald Lady. A Dixieland band lays down tune after tune, while a jokester on stilts tosses colorful doubloons. Waitresses with feathers jutting from their hair sashay through wood-paneled rooms, offering cocktails. As the riverboat pulls out of Fort Madison, Iowa, and steams up and down the Mississippi on a three-hour excursion into the 19th century, it is easy to get swept up in the hoopla. So easy that...
...Matt Johnson 2 2 32 16.0 18 1 Robb Hirsch 1 2 16 8.0 10 0 Mike Hill 1 1 19 19.0 19 0 Kendrick Joyce 1 1 15 15.0 15 1 Andy Bell 2 1 9 9.0 9 0 Rodney Taylor 2 1 9 9.0 9 0 C huck Greene 2 1 6 6.0 6 0 Rushing...