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This potential for seeing crazy moments from the crazy person's point of view is at the heart of a flawed, sentimental yet intermittently inspired comedy currently playing off-Broadway, Cave Life, in which a deranged yuppie wife conjures up a phantom lover who is a Neanderthal. More substantially, it is at the core of the two best new British plays on view in London within the past year, one discussed for a New York City staging, the other already installed. The possible transfer, Simon Gray's Melon, cues playgoers in from the start that they are entering tragic terrain...
...school but not about the bar exam he flunked. He boasts of his business skills, though he was taken in by a con woman who promised him the Hunt family's inheritance. He bred vipers in his bosom called Tammy Faye and Jim. Like John $ Kennedy, he had a phantom experience with a London university that eerily grew in later resumes. His principal books were written "with" professional writers, and he is uneasy and defensive when asked about that...
Monday, Boston Garden looked like the set of The Phantom of the Opera. Boston College and Harvard players were a bunch of crazed fiddlers, running around in an empty auditorium, desperately searching for their scores...
Lloyd Webber gives his wife every help, beginning with her vocal introduction. Although Phantom is garlanded with opera pastiche, it subliminally nudges opera aside in favor of pop by offering the winsome ballad Think of Me first in the overripe, rococo style of a diva (Judy Kaye), then in Brightman's appealingly unadorned rendition. The device hints that the Phantom and his chosen instrument will become the means for remaking musical entertainment. If that claim is to be taken as Lloyd Webber's judgment of his own role in the theater, however, it seems premature. His knack for crafting...
...Phantom of the Opera opens on Broadway to magical expectations -- and meets them. -- Director Peter Brook takes on Chekhov...