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...characters together for a few key confrontations, and the superb actors (Brian F. O?Byrne, Swoosie Kurtz and Laila Robbins) help keep our eyes transfixed on events almost too terrible to contemplate. The fact that this bleak and unsettling play transferred from off-Broadway to the land of Mamma Mia and The Lion King (where, even if it wins a Tony or two, it has slim chance of surviving) is a sign there?s at least some daring left on Broadway...
...popular 60s movies of the genre, such as Shaft and Foxy Brown. Revealing pieces from Wilson’s Leather, Planet Aid and Oona’s swayed and shimmered on bodies pulsating to the rhythm of “Sex Machine” and “Bad Mamma Jamma...
...mother sure did. And she let me know that college could be in my future, that the means would be available. It was something she had wanted for herself, I realize now. My mother, born Ella Ramah Willis, or Mamma, as I called her, had married my father George Wofford in her early 20s. By the time I was born in 1931, she was 25 and had been a mother for two years; two more babies would follow...
...giving 3000 the chance to gush without being too serious. When he adlibs, we hear what’s really on his mind: “Don’t want to meet your daddy, just want you in my Caddy / don’t want to meet your mamma, just want to make you cumma.” How can André, hornier than a tenth-grader, still be so damn charming? The music is so unexpected, and works so perfectly, that we lose ourselves entirely. The misshapen 22-bar chorus goes down like a spoonful of sugar...
...trunk show of songs from the 80s ska group Madness, and since it's about a young man who splits in two to see whether he'd turned out right if he went bad, the show could have been a mix of the amateur ABBA show "Mamma Mia" and London's longest-running bad musical, "Blood Brothers" (15 years and it hasn't had the grace to close). But the Tim Firth book weaves the songs smartly around a cleverly developed situation, and director Matthew Warchus moves the dense human traffic with lightning precision. Even the dancing's good...