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...Spider Woman) for which McNally wrote the books. "He's musical. He writes to the rhythm of the person. If he knows you, he'll go to the core, right down to the gut." John Tillinger, director of McNally's recent plays, sees a flowering in the veteran playwright. "In his earlier work," he says, "he wanted to write about deep feelings but felt he didn't have the right to do it. Who would have guessed that the acceptance, the healing, the mystical philosophy of India would be so ( fully understood by a man from Corpus Christi...
Terrence McNally, the playwright of this austerely sentimental journey, is a longtime toiler in the vineyards of the theater who increasingly finds himself the height of hot. His libretto for the Broadway musical Kiss of the Spider Woman won a shower of awards including a Tony; his AIDS teleplay, Andre's Mother, won an Emmy; his domestic tragicomedy, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, has been a hit on both coasts, and Frankie and Johnny became a movie with Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer. In his early hits Next and The Ritz, McNally revealed his fevered comic sense, satiric wit, robust skepticism...
...Playwright's Angels in America up for nine Tonys...
...BOTTOM LINE: America's most imaginative playwright on public issues rethinks the Kimberly Bergalis AIDS case...
...character is Kimberly, beguilingly played by Robin Morse. Another is a generic gay man (Richard Bekins), one of thousands whose death attracted far less attention than the five traceable to health-care errors, all by the same dentist. In a pivotal outburst, the third character (Jon DeVries), representing the playwright, recalls his brother's death in an auto accident before seat belts were standard. Technology that would have saved him had been developed, but the public was not yet ready for it to be imposed. Thus Blessing grasps the nettlesome underlying issue: in a society that says human life...