Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lone source of continuous joy in the production. Unfortunately, this first set heralded the arrival of a long sequence of scenes introducing an unnecessarily large cast of outlandish characters. After the third such scene, there were many more than Pirandello's "Six," and they were searching for a plot, not an author...
...time I was contemplating such preternatural acts, the show had found something of a plot, or rather several pieces of plot straining in different directions. What I'm getting at is, yes, the show still lacked contiguity. Rather than gradually weaving together several independently intriguing plot lines, the show could barely maintain my interest in any of its outrageous situations. As for a cliffhanger before intermission, consider that cliff as yet unclimbed...
After intermission, during which the slew of curtain-based advertisements again confronted the audience, the show's plot appeared ready for a quick finish. But the cloying musical numbers and strings of bad puns continued, this time made still more unbearable by the addition of tired jokes about Yale and Wellesley...
...disco number's respectable singing and choreography could well have closed the show, except that the plot had failed to rumble to its so-close-you-could-taste-it end. Instead, the audience had to sit through an overblown monologue by a minor character and a boring ballet (featuring a busty, less-than-agile camel) that turned into the Pudding's usual Rockettish finale. Throughout this ordeal, all I could do was shake my head...
White Rabbit is about the last day in an 88-year-old woman's life. This may sound like a depressing and dull plot for a book; however, White Rabbit is neither. Instead, it is an engaging and perceptive portrayal of the life of Ruth Caster Hubble, an endearing curmudgeon who lives in the Paradise Lagoon Condominiums in Southern California...