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Margaret Means McIntosh, who serves as program director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, observes a "general edginess" among her classmates that has resulted from their exposure to feminism and their attempts to find fulfillment in a society that drastically changed its outlook toward women in the Sixties and Seventies. Women graduating from college 25 years ago were trapped, McIntosh says, because they were taught that the "public sphere" of professions, public service, and academics was a male realm, and thus Inappropriate for a young woman. This sphere, however, was considered inherently more important than the "private...
Billing it as a "Broadway jazz revue," director David McIntosh conceived of After Hours simply as a collection of 19 dance numbers from Broadway musicals of the twenties and thirties. He has made outstanding choices, including hits from the alltime favorite musicals like Kiss Me, Kate and Babes in Arms. McIntosh necessarily draws heavily on the most famous works of Porter, Gershwin and Rodgers, since college students of the eighties are unfamiliar with many great tunes that haven't remained a part of popular culture. The only songs that don't pick up are the slower, less familiar ballads like...
During "What is This Thing Called Love?" and David Frutkoff's rendition of Sondheim's more recent "Losing My Mind," After Hours becomes simply a musical recital. Nothing happens onstage, and the tunes lose the original meanings they conveyed as a part of the musicals McIntosh lifts them from. The women's solos work better. Kathy Teague's lively "Thou Swell" and Nancy Cotten's energetic "Nobody Makes a Pass at Me," with typically American lyrics and ideas, capture best the spirit of these musicals...
...discernable and categorically almost infinite topic of Love, with which all the numbers have at least a vague connection (but what about "My Favorite Things"?). Perhaps it is even straining a bit to suggest that anything as cohesive as a theme holds this revue together; it seems likely that McIntosh deferred to musical merit in his selections...
...McIntosh's conception of a stark, "theatrical" set, a five-member cast and a three-man band is bound to be difficult to execute. Although the performers are talented and have put a great deal of work into the production, they have set themselves a nearly impossible task. After Hours will entertain you, but you won't get hooked...