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Arden and Jo meet each other for lunch twice a week Arden works as a real estate agent Jo is a bank executive. They have been friends for years and eat at their favorite fancy restaurant down town. Oftentimes Arden brings a prospective buyer with him. Sometimes Jo brings a major depositor of her expensive dish--shrimp or lobster Rockefeller when in season; Jo, the filet mignon Jo likes the $3.95 cheesecake for dessert and usually orders it saying "I'll log it off on the way home." Because Arden rents a new Mercedes Renz cash year to drive buses...
Conceived as a series of crucial moments in a woman's life. Aching Heart chronicles the coming-of-age of Fran Duffy Walsh, an Irish Brooklyn urchin who breaks off relations with her childhood guardians after her uncle, Jo-Jo forgets himself enough to kins her far too heatedly, on the night of her first date. Years later, after loneliness and marriage to a handsome neighborhood Romeo-turned-alcoholic, Fran, played by Faye Dunaway, finally 1masters the courage to face the past and reestablish contact with Jo-Jo (Bernie McInerney) in time of trouble. Music and flashback link the five...
...Heart") is a parade of idiosyncratic young men and irate foreign neighbors, and the ups and downs of a love affair with a smooth young Irishman named Lugs (Terrance O'Quinn), whom Fran eventually marries. Continuity is a hard-boiled, comical best friend. "The trauma of growing up" is Jo-Jo, but the intervening years thus stylized, far from framing the slow growth of a conflict, become a string of unrelated heartaches. Fran occasionally mentions Jo-Jo's name, but between Act II's kiss and Act V's final reconciliation, Alfred seems almost to forget about...
PERHAPS THE PLAY suffered from the weakening of its original concept as a string of disparate moments. Since Curse's first, highly successful opening in Chicago two years ago, Alfred has added a few long scenes and written in the only direct confrontations the script contains--Fran and Jo-Jo's single explosive moment and, later, her meeting with her aunt, which sparks a long talk over old times. But rather than fleshing out the story, the additions sit uneasily and discontinuities are all too evident. What pleasure, nostalgic or dramatic, can we glean from Fran and Aunt Gert...
...After Bobby Jo's phone call, I got another from the Lawston Foundry, informing me that Stan Lewandowski's sculpture, Oppresso, would not be cast in time for the opening of the Minot Performing Arts Center. The foundry workers, after hearing what Lewandowski was being paid for creating what looked to them like a large gerbil cage, went out on strike . . . I wasted fifteen minutes trying to make a lunch date with Hugo Groveland, the mining heir, to discuss the Arts Mall. He was going away for a while . . . He hinted at dark personal tragedies . . . and suggested...