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Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin), currently playing at the Shubert Theatre, is an enjoyable if somewhat slight affair. It mixes laughs with more serious themes, and while this melange of the silly and the sober can sometimes seem forced, on the whole it succeeds admirably in keeping the audience engrossed--making its running time of 90 minutes seem barely...
Elvis makes his appearance in Steve Martin's new play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, recently arrived off-Broadway after stints in Chicago and Los Angeles. The setting is a bar in Paris. The year is 1904. The chief protagonists are the young Albert Einstein (played by Mark Nelson) and the young Pablo Picasso (Tim Hopper), both of whom stand on the threshold of international fame. The source of the confusion--the reason why Elvis (Gabriel Macht) emerges as a beacon of light--isn't the heady intellectuality of this conjunction of trailblazers but an uncertainty of styles; the play...
...When it came time to run for class office, there were several people running who used all sorts of gimmicks and he just refused to use them," says Linda L. Lapin, who was Pan's class advisor in high school. "I almost regret that he hadn't, but he had just so much integrity.... we ended up with a president who just didn't follow through...
...drag on the ticket, he did not even have the most stage time. it's Einstein who is the real hero and mouthpiece of the play. Einstein's voice rings the clearest and strongest throughout, while Picasso remains boorish and dull. But who would go see Einstein at the Lapin Agile? In addition, Martin would be much better off losing his dumb seventies throw-back sex jokes, rather than trying to put a twist on the average, middle-school fiction writing project...
More imaginitive elements such as subverting the illusion of theater are worth a few laughs, and in all,Lapin Agileplays with ease, style and great fun, if only for want of some structural progression. Einstein's idea parade meanders and circles with on real way of ending plausibly, so later in the piece, a dark-eyed dream boy from the future shows up in blue suede shoes as a prophet of change. No point to that, either, other than to see where the future is heading, I suppose, and to conclude that meaningful dialogue between the arts and sciences...