Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Love Boat. Acting-wise, the play is uneven, but the good actors are the ones who spend the most time onstage anyway. The play itself is a little more than the sum of its parts. It comes off rather well if you can weather the banality of the script and just enjoy the two main characters...
However, the dramatic dimension could have profited from from a generous dose of hamming-up. Though Gilbert does not provide any really smashing leads in the script (he tends to be rather too egalitarian with character development in this one), more of the players should have cut loose and been perhaps a tad self-indulgent...
...group that really did transcend the script was the chorus of pompous Peers. In a swirl of top hats and colorful capes, they strut and sniff hilariously, snubbing the audience with a chorus of "bow, bow, thou lower middle classes, tradesmen, masses...
Last night, Oklahoma was hoping for a crueler, but fairer script. Something like, say, "Rambo...
MOONSTRUCK John Patrick Shanley's witty, shapely script puts an octet of New Yorkers under a lunar-tuney spell one romantic night. Cher shines brightest...