Word: philadel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half-century passes. Enter Marjorie Samoff and Eric Salzman, looking for the right play to open their newly formed American Music Theater Festival. They pieced Band together with the help of the late Ira Gershwin and Anne Kaufman Schneider, the playwright's daughter. It opened last week in Philadel phia with a cast led by Saturday Night Live Veteran Bill Irwin, 34, a practiced stage clown. "It's a pretty garbled satire," admits Irwin, "but it has a wonderful thrust." The Inquirer critic liked Irwin and the rest of the cast, but the play, he thought...