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...finish alone. The play opened in Chicago last week to mixed reviews. To be sure, the string of incidents--young Carol (here called Helen) lives in a one-room Hollywood apartment with her cranky Christian Scientist grandmother (Linda Lavin) and her alcoholic, divorced mother--is overlong and shapeless. But the play's very artlessness makes it more affecting than many slicker stage memoirs. Its portrayal of how a dysfunctional upbringing can look absolutely normal to the child caught up in it rings true. --By Richard Zoglin
...feels more like a comix social mixer than a show. (A perfectly legitimate ambition, but not one that encourages broader exposure.) It needs to get tighter and slicker. Keeping the number of participants down to three, with two big names and one lesser known "opener" would speed up the overlong proceedings. Likewise the readings should be done all in row, with an open panel afterwards for those who wish to stick around. With some tinkering "Comics Decode" could evolve into more than an attempt at broadening comix' appeal. It has the potential to explore added layers of meaning...
...rights to a dying fanzine called "The Nostalgia Journal," and published it as "The New Nostalgia Journal." Soon renamed the "The Comics Journal," it began by publishing an expose of the sleazy dealings the publishers had with another fanzine owner. Unprecedentedly juicy for a "fan" magazine but way overlong and self-involved, the piece immediately established the contradictory nature of the "Journal" that continues to this...
Love, Janis is a more ambitious but less satisfying show, in which well-amplified renditions of Joplin's hits (Piece of My Heart, Me and Bobby McGee) are interspersed with excerpts from letters to her parents. It's overlong and a bit overblown: so great was Joplin's talent that it takes two performers (one sings; the other does most of the talking) to encompass her. Make that three: because of the role's "vocal demands," two performers alternate nights as the singing Janis...
...full circle. With the aid of guest musicians Jerry Douglas and James Hutchinson on dobro and bass, Altan gives its take on this 35-year-old Bob Dylan piece which was in turn partly inspired by a traditional song. Track seven packs all the clichés into the overlong title “Gusty’s Frolicks/Con Slip Jig/The Pretty Young Girls of Carrick/The Humours of Whiskey.” After Riverdance, Guinness and Southie, Ireland often seems in danger of becoming a mere caricature in American culture. Fortunately, Altan’s delightful interpretation of these jigs...