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...Outfitted in punk khaki - checker-rimmed dark glasses, red sneakers, ornamental bruise on her arm - Wren crashes the Peppermint Lounge and puts the make on new wave musicians, who pay about as much attention to her as they would to the framed landscape on a motel-room wall. This Piaf-size waif has big, gaudy dreams; what she gives and gets is 24-hours-a-day pain, as stark and grating as a dentist's drill...
Indeed, Montand, with his sad, weary, Bogart eyes, is best when he sings of love and melancholy, which seem, as he describes them, to be one and the same. Most audiences, moreover, will almost certainly know a bit of his history: his early romance with Edith Piaf, his brief affair with Marilyn Monroe and his long and enduring marriage to Actress Simone Signoret. Montand does not stand alone. He is surrounded by ghosts, memories and the soft, dusky glow of nostalgia...
...Piaf. The Sparrow's song-brief in ecstasy, extreme pain-was the predawn Paris blues. Tribute in kind was paid Piaf in the searing Tony Award-winning performance of Jane Lapotaire...
Steve Martin filters laugh-a-minute zaniness through Redford good looks: goy meets Berle. Mull intones mantras of malevolent banality. Tomlin incarnates sorority queens and shopping-bag ladies with the intensity of Piaf and the emotional range of either Hepburn. Brooks works the baroque side of the street. Kaufman's characters populate a doll's house of the bizarre. They are as different from one another as bright young people can be. But they share a basic belief-that the business of America is show business -and a fascination with the detritus of the entertainment industry. Steve Allen...
...Piaf, their latest show, opened Feb. 5 to mixed reviews but good business. Rose, the next on their list, is scheduled to premiere March 26, with Glenda Jackson playing the same part she did in London, that of a schoolteacher frustrated with life in the provinces. Only one of their shows, Home, failed to make back its investment (some $300,000), and even that, says McCann, will probably turn a profit after its planned road tour...