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Bill Morrissey, Christine Lavin and Peter, Paul and Mary performed at the concert, and Massie himself played the banjo in the closing number, "This Land is Your Land...
ROOM FOR TWO (ABC, debuting March 24, 9:30 p.m. EST). Linda Lavin and Patricia Heaton spar with panache as a widowed mother and her TV-producer daughter. Nothing new, but sitcoms far worse than this have spent years in the Nielsen...
...quickly becoming outdated. As we begin the '90s, the zeitgeist has changed again. Now the sensitive male is a wimp and an object of derision to boot. In her song Sensitive New Age Guys, singer Christine Lavin lampoons, "Who carries the baby on his back? Who thinks Shirley MacLaine is on the inside track?" Now it's goodbye, Alan Alda; hello, Mel Gibson, with your sensitive eyes and your lethal weapon. Hi there, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the devoted family man with terrific triceps. The new surge of tempered macho is everywhere. Even the male dummies in store windows are getting tougher...
...here he is in this bar and probably won't make it tonight. David Buskin and Robin Batteau are classically trained musicians, sophisticated enough to put across an intricate, pun-mad parody of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice ("He was a great musician, who finally learned decomposition . . .") Christine Lavin sings witty, wistful songs about shouldering your way through the big world when you are only five feet tall and not very fierce...
...Pirandello characters, too, must play themselves, but in a more metaphysical sense. Each allegorical character follows his own inexorable law, fixed in a reality which never changes. Actress Linda Lavin plays the Mother, a character trapped in an eternal moment of grief. Lavin, who played the title role in the CBS sit-com "Alice," makes her tragedy seem frighteningly real. Her limping movements, quavery voice and a face of pure sorrow bring her character to life...