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AUTHOR: SUE MILLER...
What is welcome about this deft writing-off of a twerp is that the voice is not Lottie's. It is the author's, and the effect is to give the reader distance from characters who, though they don't realize this, are acting out a comedy. But novelist Miller, instead of describing the mawkishness, chose to take trifling people seriously. The result is that although the author's previous novel Family Pictures became a prime-time TV mini-series, For Love is daytime soap opera...
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENTS: Donald J. Barr, Donald M. Elliman Jr., Robert L. Miller...
...Betsy Brecht, Robert C. Raines (Senior Associate Directors); Linda Louise Freeman (Covers); Steve Conley, Thomas M. Miller, Billy Powers, Ina Saltz (Associate Art Directors); Joseph Aslaender, Kenneth B. Smith (Assistant Art Directors); David Drapkin, Leah M. Purcell (Designers); John P. Dowd (Traffic) Maps and Charts: Joe Lertola (Associate Graphics Director); Paul J. Pugliese (Chief of Cartography); Leslie Dickstein, Steven D. Hart, Deborah L. Wells Administration: Marilyn Rudnick-Salinger...
Also good are Doug Miller as the Duke and Yoseph Choi as the Grand Inquisitor. Miller has one of the strangest accents in a show full of pseudo-Brits but he prances about the stage in the best tradition of the "little man who sings the patter song," as Anna Russell put it. If he is less strong in the second act, his introductory song, "The Duke of Plaza-Toro," in the first is one of the best moments of the show. Blessedly, he understands the importance of enunciation. Choi plays the Inquisitor as a little more of a lech...