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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than for performers. Ben Riller is an impresario with a string of hits behind him and catastrophe in sight: he wants to produce a play in verse. (There actually was a rhyming comedy on Broadway this season, La Bete, and it bombed.) Short on cash, Ben borrows from Nick Manucci, a colorful old mafioso who wants 10% interest weekly, plus 50% of the show. As events hurtle toward opening night, agitations grow and Ben becomes more and more indecisive until, like Hamlet, he begins having conversations with his late father. Fortunately, they are witty exchanges by two convincing characters. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Reading | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

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