Word: lover
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with six tons of barricades, eventually heaped with the bodies of the rebels. The nature of the intended revolution remains more than a little sketchy, as does the alliance that binds together the likes of the streetwise urchin Gavroche (Braden Danner) and the idealistic student Marius (David Bryant), the lover of the grownup Cosette (Judy Kuhn). This lack of ideology may enhance the show's appeal: it taps generalized populist sentiment without bogging down in debate...
Many more women said that they wanted their next lover to be a virgin--22 percent this year, up from 9 percent in 1977. In both surveys, 10 percent of the men wanted their next lover to be a virgin...
...brief turn on the dance floor with a young woman results in a discomfiting discussion of Irish patriotism. Finally, the innocuous singing of a melancholy Irish air leads Gretta down a bitter path of memory that results in a crushing revelation, of a past life and an unforgotten lover who died for love...
...Twisted, brassy and clinging for her evocations of the low-biz Songstresses Vicki Eydie and Dolores DeLago. Midler's most powerful number, Stay with Me (best heard on the sound-track album of her 1980 concert film, Divine Madness), is the plea of a woman to her departing lover. Her mood is desperate; her sexual pride has been flayed raw. She can only beg and scream. Bette scorches the soul with this one. In six minutes she wrings out herself and the song, and mops up the audience as well. Her cover versions of all these songs make the originals...
...comic momentum. The cast moves like clubfooted puppets; they would be more fun if they had been photographed watching the Weather Channel. Beyond Therapy also suffers from something like pestilential bad timing. It is, after all, the story of a bisexual guy waffling between his mistress and his male lover. Durang, who has made wondrous mock of such sacred institutions as Roman Catholicism, child rearing and the Hollywood musical, might have considered confronting the last taboo by updating his satire to the Age of AIDS. But no. The play has come to the screen inert and toxic, a poisonous time...