Word: off-broadway
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WHERE: OFF-BROADWAY...
...celebrates ferocious winners, while Lemmon, 68, sentimentalizes good-guy losers. Yet twice within the past year, the two have teamed for poignant results, first in the 1992 film adaptation of Mamet's Pulitzer Prize play, Glengarry Glen Ross, and now in a surprisingly warm TV version of his 1977 off-Broadway hit, A Life in the Theatre. Mamet's austere, elliptic prose seems to bring out the best in Lemmon -- his naked frustration as he fights for dignity -- without any of the fussy mannerisms and comedic cuteness that have marred many of his portraits of men in fearful free fall...
...acted on television, film and off-Broadway theater. Another is a published poet and journalist, with bylines in such prestigious publications as The Nation...
...addition to his work off-Broadway, Vittorioso worked in an award-winning theater company and participated in an international theater festival. He has performed in plays by writers from Anton Chekov to Sam Shepard...
...office and, with stock and amateur productions, turned into an annuity for its creators -- which is a good thing, because none of them have had much but flops onstage ever since. Not surprisingly, they decided to try to make lightning strike twice. Alas, the sequel that opened off-Broadway last week provides at best a mild spark. It is pleasant, tuneful, funny and fit for whole families. It just doesn't make spectators tingle...