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...Agassiz Theatre. Under the musical direction of Gerald Moshell and the staging and choreography of Scott Collishaw, Thomas Jones portrays a charismatic Robert, magnetic enough to become the believable focus for his circle of friends. Through Robert we meet his 10 close friends and his three girlfriends Marta (Lori Glaser), Kathy (Jeanne Jones) and April (Eileen McNamara). And whether the actor are singing solos duets like Robert and April in "Barcelona," or grand ensemble efforts, they strike a deep resonant chord as their clearly enunciated works hit home...
...extremely well coordinated it frequently overpowers the actors, most distressingly Jones and Glaser: the stage is too small for such orchestral volume, Jones has a fine tenor voice but we miss too many words when the orchestra blares out especially in the show's witty title song. Glaser whose Marta is self effacingly comic gets drowned out in perhaps the show's most beautiful song. "Another Hundred People," which describe the anonymity of New York City life...
King uses a freeze-frame technique to good effect in numbers like "Another Hundred People": the action alternates between Robert talking to different girlfriends as Marta (Jennifer Susan Burton), invisible, listens in; and Marta singing a commentary while the other two freeze in the background...
...becomes progressively more difficult, however, even to determine which side of the line he occupies. Distinctions blur. The magistrate flies into hysterics on learning that Marta allowed the maid's son to touch his Mickey Mouse collection...
...interrogate Giovanni, a young man who is suspected of having convinced a former mistress to jump out of a window, the legal paraphernalia inevitably gives way to philosophical probing. "Why was I born?". "What is the meaning of life?" Obsessed with such questions, Mauro begins to ponder convincing Marta to commit suicide. The acquaintance with the young man finishes off Mauro's already rickety defenses against the incursions of madness: If life makes no sense in itself, what can distinctions of sanity or public virtue matter...