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...OFF-BROADWAY SHOW IN MANHATTAN CALLED THE NEWS in Revue is packing them in by turning today's political headlines into tonight's routines. For instance: the long-running Clinton-Gore road tour has gone sour since the Fab Foursome started getting on each other's nerves. Bill keeps playing that darned sax, and Hillary won't quit with the cookies. Tables are outfitted with ballot boxes, and every night the audience votes for President. At last count, Clinton had won 68 of 70 ballots...
...Broadway biggies are here: Crazy for You, Guys and Dolls, Jelly's Last Jam, The Most Happy Fella, Five Guys Named Moe, The Will Rogers Follies, The Secret Garden, Once on This Island, Grand Hotel and, in an earlier gestation, Falsettos. The ardent browser will find off-Broadway hits (Song of Singapore) and fizzles (Stephen Sondheim's Assassins) and even the season's notorious flops on Broadway (Nick & Nora) and off (Eating Raoul). If Moose Murders had been a musical, someone would now be recording...
After an uncertain start, director Norman Rene (a valued collaborator on all of Lucas' projects) finds a sure, subtle rhythm that honors both the script's delicacy and the boisterous demands of a date-night movie audience. Baldwin, who breathed this role so naturally in the play's off-Broadway stint that no one else needed apply for the movie version, is a terrific guide through Peter's decent bafflement. Ryan, new to the part, must work hard to get under Rita's skin, which she does beautifully at about the time someone else invades it. And Walker, a stage...
...DIAPER BABY is less ably performed yet livelier because it recounts a more exotic upbringing -- as a son of doctrinaire U.S. communists. But Kornbluth barely hints at his own political evolution after an eye-opening trip to Russia, while devoting queasily explicit minutes to losing his virginity. Both off-Broadway shows squander serious opportunities in exchange for laughs or titillation...
Composer Alan Menken won four Oscars for the movies The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast with lyricist Howard Ashman. For the stage, they created Little Shop of Horrors. After Ashman died of AIDS in 1991, Menken tried various collaborators. WEIRD ROMANCE, which opened off-Broadway last week, shows how much he misses Ashman's storytelling. The two one-acts (book by Alan Brennert and lyrics by David Spencer) blend zippy tunes with cliche science fiction. A witty, upbeat song recalls how a boy fell in love with lab testing, and Ellen Greene sings gorgeous ballads. But what...