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...between the sexes and tinkered with the staging, including an explosion for the first-act finale, when a frustrated devil punishes his temptress- assistant. Says Jack O'Brien, who directed the revival and revamped the book with Abbott: "He is absolutely astonishing on structure. When he suggested blowing up Lola, I thought we hadn't built up to it. A while later, he suggested it again and said, 'It'll get a big laugh.' It does...
...make matters even more clear, the Raincoats traded members with the only all-female punk band that had been around longer than they had, the influential and aggressive Slits; they also covered the Kinks' "Lola," adding another layer of gender confusion to Ray Davies' already mixed-up sexual world. The Raincoats' first record therefore gets attention as a kind of pop-music ecriture feminine, and the articulate Raincoats themselves as the distant foremothers of Bikini Kill...
...Loves Me, made its original debut? Or 1960, when this season's Camelot first put castles in the air? Or perhaps 1956, when this season's My Fair Lady gave elocution a song and dance? Maybe it's 1955, when this season's Damn Yankees first proved that whatever Lola wants, Lola gets. Perhaps it's as modern as 1968, when this season's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat first displayed the talents of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Or perhaps it's as far back as 1945, when this season's most eagerly awaited musical, Carousel, first revealed heaven...
...Kings," plays the role of Ned Ravine, the dull-witted lawyer-detective and object of his adulterous wife Lana's (Kate Nelligan) murderous schemes. Sherilyn Fenn stars as Laura, Ned's devoted secretary who is blindly in love with him. She competes with the provocative, Sharon Stone-like seductress, Lola (played by the sizzling Sean Young), for his attention...
...large part of the generational tension lies in reactions to sex and sexuality. Maydee claims that she does not want or need a man, deriding Lola for always running after a "gigolo." Lola, never afraid to speak her mind, answers scornfully to Maydee that "a blanket's cuddly if you wrap it the right way." But the humor of their words cannot be contained in any of the many one-liners, but in the whole, in the interaction of all five players on stage...