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...then breaks up with the male lover, woos him back and ultimately watches him die of aids might not sound like most people's idea of entertainment. Certainly no other current musical opens with a song called Four Jews in a Room Bitching, features a soft-shoe-dancing psychiatrist lilting about how "everyone hates his parents" or has two women characters cheerily introduce themselves as "the lesbians from next door." But then, only Falsettos, which capped off the Broadway season last week to wide critical acclaim, has music and lyrics by the quirky, quixotic, querulous and unquenchable William Finn. Depending...
Finally Finn turned his attention back to Marvin and his world -- Whizzer, the former wife Trina and son Jason, and Trina's new husband Mendel, who had met her when he was Marvin's psychiatrist. Plus, of course, the lesbians, a doctor treating "frightened bachelors" at the outset of the AIDS epidemic and a chef who experiments in nouvelle kosher. Says Finn: "I realized that I was obsessed with these characters. I still am. I am not interested in writing about anyone else. Everything that moves and grips me in the theater can be told through these people. And they...
...Equus, which played at the Loeb Experimental Theater last weekend, Alan Strang (Benjamin Hewitt) faces these disturbing circumstances. Still, family problems and a fetish are not compelling enough reason to blind five horses. Martin Dysart (Donald Britton), a professional psychiatrist, begins with the hope to cure...
...situation at home does not improve either. The martial problems that the Strangs attempt to hide begin to surface when each approaches the psychiatrist with details of Alan's life, as well as their own. "Ask him about the girl he was with that night," Frank Strang (Blake Lawit) tells Martin...
MEDICINE Did sex and therapy drive a psychiatrist's patient to suicide...