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Finally, at age 16, she gave up school and went into repertory. She had learned to read silently and to remember her parts, but auditions and first readings were, as she says, "torture. The producer or playwright would think: Who is this cocky girl mucking up our masterpiece that we've been working on for years?" But 18 months, two companies, and more than 100 roles later, she finally arrived on the West End, playing a show-stopping cameo in Expresso Bongo with Paul Scofield...
CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY Philip Handler, Sc.D., president of the National Academy of Sciences. Arthur Miller, L.H.D., playwright...
Lemon Sky is one of those plays about a sensitive adolescent living in a troubled family under the wrathful eye of a callous and cruel parent (usually the father) who subsequently becomes a sensitive young playwright who writes plays like Lemon Sky. When such a play comes from the heart, it can be lyrically powerful. Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie is the classic example. A first-rate drama of this kind opened off-Broadway a few weeks ago, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, and deservedly won the New York Drama Critics' Circle...
Lemon Sky is an indifferent sample of the genre, possibly because it comes mainly from Playwright Lanford Wilson's larynx. His hero, Alan, is a compulsive monologist who alternates between flip quips and narcissistic arias of self-pity. The interspersing of frequent asides and stream-of-consciousness speeches creates the undramatic effect of a man too busy commenting on his life to live it. As Alan, Christopher Walken handles these technical devices with an admirable fluidity, and makes the boy more humanly vulnerable than his words. In the hiss-the-father department, Charles Durning fashions an equally well-shaded...
...managed to lodge and rehearse a 19-member cast in the White Way Hotel, where his brother-in-law is the hotel manager. Miller's line of credit consists of exactly 67? cash (in the playwright's pocket) and $1,200 in unpaid hotel bills. Suddenly a dragon of a hotel inspector is breathing fire down everyone's neck. Fortuitously, a backer appears. At one of many crucial and hilarious moments, Miller, with no ink in his pen, frantically tries to pierce his wrist and draw blood so that the angel can sign the contract. From then...