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Media Amok--Through April 26. By Christopher Durang. Directed by Les Waters. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 8 p.m. Call 547-8300 for tickets. Friday, 3 April...
...undefined characters and mediocre performances -- than for its shameless retrospection, its bland assertion that Broadway's future lies in its past. The second act contains two gratuitous slurs on the "concept" musicals that have dominated the past decade: a visual slap at Grand Hotel and a verbal slam toward Les Miserables. Yet those shows have precisely what Crazy for You so painfully lacks: propulsive storytelling, cinematically fluid staging, emotionally powerful character songs, and a sense that something urgent and meaningful is at stake...
...Winter Games are more informal and convivial than the Summer ones. At Les Saisies, a picturesque winterscape of red bridges in the snow, where the first women's biathlon in Olympic history was being held, snowballing was actually the favorite event, and children bobsledded without benefit of sleds. Scores of jolly Norwegians sang folk songs around an accordion and swayed in place, beating time with the poles of enormous Norwegian flags. But even here clocks were ticking everywhere, and as the athletes set off on lonely 25- minute journeys, instants were getting ready to be replayed in the pause...
...Brides-les-Bains (pop. 650), normally a thermal spa for obesity treatment, the Olympic Village was tucked into an authentic Alpine village, with one whole side of the main street fenced off -- even the town hall was behind bars -- so that it felt as if the hamlet itself were under house arrest. Ear-flapped gendarmerie stood in front of the cage, and one French woman biathlete complained that "you can't even take a tea bag in without being checked." But the competitors could at least enjoy a taste of the high life: they dined every night under crystal chandeliers...
Wednesday, Feb. 19: Vincent And Theo at3 and 7:40 p.m. Les Enfants Terribles...