Word: neuroticisms
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Broadway has welcomed gay material before. But a breakthrough in unabashed candor and commercial viability came with last season's best musical, Falsettos, which centers on a father who leaves his wife and son to take up with a male lover who dies of AIDS. While it sounds grim, the...
This poignant situation inspired Shakespeare for My Father, a one-woman show that is original, funny, often fascinating and profoundly neurotic, a blend of art and psychotherapy. Ostensibly a tribute to her father, the piece is really a thwarted child's cri de coeur for his love and approval, melding...
Lottie's neurotic elder brother resumes an obsessive affair with Elizabeth, a shallow beauty Lottie continues to resent because of snubs in their high school years. Her 21-year-old son sleeps with Elizabeth's baby-sitter, then ignores her, and when she dies in an auto accident decreed by...
If only life here were that interesting. In general, posters are all too bland and predictable: the sexual innuendo for the Shakespeare play, the neurotic question for Room 13, the "Free Beer" eye-catcher for the fledgling organization.
The second mistake was to have Peters, so good at winsome vulnerability, play a character so hard and snarly. From the opening number, in which she rages at being abandoned by a live-in boyfriend, to the contrived quarrel with her new paramour a few moments before the finale, her...