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...time musicals, Gerard Alessandrini is still skewering away -- wicked as ever. His 12th and latest off-Broadway review, FORBIDDEN BROADWAY 1993, is as up to date as Kansas City and as funny as anything that happened on the way to the forum. New shows (the flop Anna Karenina, Patti LuPone in the not-even-yet-produced Sunset Boulevard) are raked over the coals; old chestnuts (a frenzied Les Miz, a nontraditional Miss Saigon) are freshly roasted. The song titles alone delight (to the tune of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, a mock Mandy Patinkin sings Somewhat Overindulgent; the stars...
THEATER Anna Karenina seems better for TV than theater...
TITLE: ANNA KARENINA...
...Anna Karenina makes the case for the smaller-scale musical. It is a modestly produced chamber piece, with a minimal set and an orchestra of seven. What is right with the show all involves just one or two people, notably the first fine rapture of the title character's illicit infatuation with Count Vronsky and the pathetic disillusionment that sends her to her grim fate. What is wrong could not be fixed by any amount of dressing up. Anna is an earnest, intermittently moving but never quite thrilling stage equivalent to PBSs Masterpiece Theater -- lovely gowns, precise elocution and ballroom...
Dalma Heyn's study of unfaithful wives begins promisingly with a startling canvass of literature's most famous adulteresses. From Anna Karenina to Emma Bovary, the cheating woman pays a steep price for her unchecked sexuality: she winds up dead. "What if she were your best friend, or your sister?" Heyn challenges. "Would you still need to see her punished?" Heyn, it seems in her opening pages, is going to vivisect the biases that continue to hold women to a different sexual standard from men. Oh boy, I think with post-Murphy Brown glee. Dan Quayle is going to hate...