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...Picasso at the Lapin Agile, comedian Steve Martin's 1996 take on the conundrums that the young geniuses Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein might have faced, contains heterogeneous elements running from unabashed sexuality to out-landish predictions about the future, all presented in a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic mode. However, the play's overarching theme is the question of what the twentieth century holds in store for humankind. Watching this thought-provoking piece at the end of 1998, near the threshhold of the 21st century, is a most meaningful experience...
...Picasso and Einstein--both on the verge of having fame thrust upon their shoulders--are young men as hopeful as they are insecure, in many ways a reflection of our very selves as we too struggle with the dawning of the second millennium. The audience can identify not only with Picasso and Einstein, but with many other quirky characters congregating at the Lapin Agile, that famous Parisian bar which Picasso and Einstein, so we are told, patronized faithfully in their youth...
Edward Eaton and Shawn Elinoff's recent production of Picasso at the Lapin Agile, also directed by Eaton and produced through special arrangement with Dramatist Play Services, did a magnificent job of creating the ambiance of a bygone time and place. As the play was produced in an elegant Beacon Hill townhouse, audience and cast mingled in a way that supported the illusion that what was going to happen on stage was happening in the here and now. Due to the very nature of Picasso at the Lapin Agile, environmentalist theater worked perfectly...
Coupling commercial techno-kitsch with the masterworks of Van Gogh and Picasso is like crossing the book Private Parts by Howard Stern with the Civil War diaries of Mary Chestnut. Thank you, Vegas, for your attempts at high art, but no thanks. A Warholian approach might have been more fitting. DOUG HATCH Madison...
...which were much better live, and he also played many of his classics, like "I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar" ("Well the straight bar things were stop and stare/But in this bar things were laissez faire") and the hilarious "Parties in the USA." He played "Girlfriend" and "Pablo Picasso" ("Well some people try to pick up girls/And get called assholes/This never happened to Pablo Picasso/Not like you"), both from the first Modern Lovers album (to the delight of the crowd), which sang so loud they nearly drowned out the sound of poor Jonathan. Richman loves to swing his hips...