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...visions run to high-speed trains from New York City to Boston, not spaceships to distant planets. Forever cerebral, he proved unable to reach into his gut to discover his emotions, the heartland of any political soul. For this cautious candidate, a man slow to anger and reluctant to laugh, the risk of exploration was too great. After nearly two years of campaigning, Dukakis remains essentially the same person as when he began. He has barely grown as a candidate. And growth is the least that Americans demand of a potential President...
...laugh, but beer is one of the running motifs of Prascak's production, one of the few things that unites the three plays. Flute's Queen of the Night (Lee Ann Einert) rules over the proceedings with a can of Rolling Rock in her outstretched hand. Soprano's bourgeois Londoners drink the stuff, too. And Hamlet's (Elijah Aron) famous soliloquy now begins, "To drink beer or not to drink beer...
...surprise, he says, was that "parts of the show were funny. because we rehearsed so much, the parts that I had directed as funny just weren't anymore. It was pleasant to hear the audience laugh...
Laughter was one of the things that made Shapiro happiest on opening night, too, he says. "If I do something on stage and I hear someone laugh I think `Oh my God, what's more important than hearing someone laugh?'" says Shapiro...
This anxiety leads many Americans to look the other way when confronted with representations that are clearly prejudiced. But the next time you feel tempted to laugh at the portrayal of Asian-Americans as docile, blundering or subservient, look at your TV set. I bet it's a Sony...