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...explanation. Jones town Express, which premiered last week at Providence's Trinity Square Repertory Theater, flounders somewhat as it butts against the incomprehensibility of the tragedy. But at a time when dramatists are shying away from "big" social issues (or muddling them, as in Arthur Kopit's End of the World), Jonestown Express exhibits some admirable qualities: a bold conception, provocative ideas and the ability to give those ideas theatrical life...
...Federico Fellini's 1968 movie 8½, it is the story of an Italian film director who has sought refuge at a Venetian spa, where he is desperately trying to put together a film and at the same time make sense out of his disorderly life. Arthur Kopit's book is confusing, Maury Yeston's music is forgettable, and his lyrics are banal. Yet Tune's direction is so lively one tends to forget all that. Most directors would be glad just to avoid traffic jams with such a large cast: four boys...
...NINE" Book by Arthur Kopit Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston
...little noticed revue. A Brooklyn department store, unable to take out the usual full-page ads for its back-to-school sales, took to the skies instead, hiring five computer-assisted planes to cough out messages in white smoke. On Broadway, the Sept. 11 opening of Arthur Kopit's new play, Wings, was postponed until after the still uncertain reopening of New York's real-life version of The Front Page...
...Kopit has written it, Wings is more a poetic vision than a full-scale play, and Mrs. Stilson tells her story in one act of an hour and 40 minutes. It is a peculiarly compelling vision, however, and Cummings, 68, making one of her too rare American appearances, gives a brilliant performance in what is almost a one-woman show. She gives each gesture the perfect size and commands every nuance; John Madden has directed with proper astringency. Wings is in every sense a high flyer...