Word: plot
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...role of the daughter, Karin (not Joanne) is played by Jessica Semerjian, an actress who neither looks nor sounds anything like Genevieve. I cannot accept Ms. Lee's remark that "the acoustics of the auditorium overwhelm the singers" as an excuse for confusing such a basic element of the plot...
...Many theatergoers fidgeted or tittered in the wrong places. (There aren't many right places to laugh in Passion, which makes no use of Sondheim's greatest gift -- a talent for writing intricate comic lyrics that fit the characters.) Sensing disaster, Sondheim and director-librettist James Lapine revamped the plot, recast a major role, picked up the pace and added three songs. The show is vastly improved, but huge problems remain. The obsessed woman, stirringly acted and sung by Donna Murphy, is still difficult to like or admire. The man whom she chases spends most of the show eluding...
Wait, though. Like the plot of many another entertainment extravaganza, this one might be wildly overhyped. Perhaps Seagram is doing no more than Bronfman blandly asserts: making a long-term, "passive" investment in a company whose future earnings promise a bigger return than Seagram's declining liquor business. One of Bronfman's oldest show-business friends, movie producer David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire), insists it is not even the entertainment side of Time Warner that most intrigues Bronfman but the prospect for future profits on the information superhighway. Says Puttnam: "The idea that he has stars in his eyes...
...plot of "Naked in New York" is quite simple. Jake meets Joanne (Mary-Louise Parker) at Harvard; they have problems after graduation because they want to pursue their won careers. Oh, and they're artsy: he writes plays; she takes pictures. They both have so much artistic fervor, in fact, that Jake disses Joanne to work with a slimy producer and a soap-opera star in New York, while Joanne disses Jake to chase a wheeler-dealer gallery owner around the country in his private...
...balcony of the Agassiz Theater, the acoustics of the auditorium and the size of the orchestra overwhelm the singers nonetheless. Their sung words remain buried under the sheer volume of the instruments; since the musical has little spoken dialogue to clarify the characters' identities and actions, much of the plot goes unexplained...