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...Steel Pier, by contrast, has been carried to Broadway by far more favorable winds. It has a score by Kander and Ebb--once again toasts of the town, thanks to the hit revival of their 1975 show, Chicago--and a premise that seems made to order for the team and for talented choreographer Susan Stroman: a 1930s dance marathon in Atlantic City. The show is cannily mounted, bouncy and often tuneful, professional all the way. Yet it's still a disappointment...
...unique stores can find their way to national-chain stardom by starting in the Square, say some, pointing to Pier One Imports, Learningsmith, Au Bon Pain, Cybersmith and Newbury Comics as stores--now chains--that got their start in the Square...
Well, we can't. Cirque still works, magnificently. From its first moments under the yellow-and-blue big top on the Santa Monica Pier, Quidam (which means "anybody" in Latin) pulls the audience out of domesticity into the ethereum of its wizardly wit. A man and a woman sit in metal chairs, he reading a paper, she knitting. A child sits before them. Then through a door comes a large figure out of a Magritte painting: long overcoat, umbrella, bowler hat, no head. The child takes the creature's magic hat, puts it on--and dreams the three-hour show...
...this street, ya know." The heavyset woman hosing down her trash cans refers to the onrushing traffic to and from the Coast Guard station, where the police, the politicians, the FBI and the press have their separate clusters and where bodies are being brought by boat to the cement pier...
Then, just as we reached the final bars of the anthem, "Oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave...," a spray of dazzling white light shot up from near the pier...