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...GEOGRAPHY OF LUCK. The drifters, gamblers and hustlers in Marlane Meyer's desert panorama mingle the doomed banality of Sam Shepard characters with the quixotic blessings of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. At the Los Angeles Theater Center...
Marlane Meyer's The Geography of Luck, on another stage at the same theater, is an adroitly crafted portrait of assorted drifters, losers and desert rats that starts out sourly Sam Shepardesque yet ends in an eerie and touching echo of Saroyan's affirmative The Time of Your Life. But Roberta Levitow, normally a talented director, gave every scene the same pace and texture and allowed the frequent scene changes to dissipate energy and tension. Fortunately for Meyer, a staging under different direction is planned for this summer at Los Angeles Theater Center...
...Aram Saroyan...
...female now all but extinct, young women who aspired, through beauty and wit, to marry rich, famous and fascinating older men. Each got her wish. After a false start with a Hollywood agent, Gloria Vanderbilt made a better (although also temporary) match with Leopold Stokowski. Carol Marcus married William Saroyan and Oona O'Neill discovered lifelong romance with Charlie Chaplin. As this novelistic account makes clear, the three women were as interesting as the men they married. Aram Saroyan, son of the ill-fated Saroyan-Marcus marriage, takes them from their schoolgirl days in pre-World War II Manhattan...
...HUMAN COMEDY. William Saroyan's novel of homespun Americana packed little wallop as the book for this pop cantata, but the profligate melodiousness of Galt MacDermot's score and a dozen engaging actors just about sent audiences humming and floating out of the theater...