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...hole in the urban fabric has become a rose-and-beige-striped building complex, housing two hotels (36 and 38 stories high, with a total of nearly 2,000 rooms), four seven-story office buildings, shopping galleries with 100 restaurants and stores (including such glossy names as Neiman-Marcus, Tiffany, Gucci and Saint Laurent), a nine-screen movie house and parking for 1,432 cars...
...years, perspective has been conceding huge slabs of ground to outlandishness. During the early days of Roman numerals, President Nixon was content to recommend flanker-reverse plays. Now President Reagan appears on a split screen to express his nuclear reaction to a 191-yd. performance by Raiders Running Back Marcus Allen. Because of the Super Bowl, the stock market in New York goes down, some bookies in Las Vegas go broke and a water main in Salt Lake City goes blooey (when too many toilets were flushed at once). In Chicago, a Raiders fan stabbed by a neighboring Redskins...
...idealized portrait of a small California town during World War II, Comedy (the title is meant in a Dantean rather than Keatonian sense) tells the story of the widowed Mother Macauley (Bonnie Koloc), whose firstborn, Marcus, has gone to war, leaving her to struggle along with her three other children. The family, though, is merely the centerpiece of a civic tableau; as staged, oratorio-style, by Director Wilford Leach, a large chorus sits facing the audience,with various performers stepping forward to portray schoolchildren, townspeople and soldiers. The hero is not an individual but the imaginary, indomitable town of Ithaca...
What the show needs is a firm, focused dramatic center. The Macauleys often seem like extras in their own story. Marcus' death in battle is not as moving as it should be, for instance, because the character is not introduced, except by reference, until well into the second act. And the happy-end romance between his sister (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and a war buddy is an emotional afterthought. Further, the libretto is often awkwardly phrased and rhymed: "Don't tell me your love/ Has been killed off by time./ It can still be fulfilled,/ Fulfilled by mine...
...anthem for the whole town, Beautiful Music. The pop-music style of the '40s is nostalgically evoked in The Birds, a soft-shoe love song for the assistant telegraph operator, Spangler (Rex Smith), and Diana (Leata Galloway). Most effective of all is a bittersweet canonic letter duet for Marcus (Don Kehr) and his home-front brother Homer (Stephen Geoffreys) that develops into a touching antiwar choral...