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...Selig, the affable car dealer who owns the Milwaukee Brewers, has been serving as de facto commissioner since September. "We'll have a commissioner," Selig insists. "We have a search committee in progress. But it's hard to say when." A shrewd guess is not until there is a new baseball labor agreement. The owners fear that a new commissioner -- no matter how limited his formal mandate -- would try to avert a spring-training lockout in 1994 as Vincent did in 1980. "The owners have decided that they get along better without a commissioner," theorizes the unrepentant Vincent. "Any commissioner...
Because Eugene is the channel for the whole drama, the performance of his character is crucial to the success of the play. Bill Selig portrays Eugene as narrator and character both with natural ease. He manages to sustain a candid, jokey rapport with the audience and at the same time can lose himself in his interactions with the rest of the cast...
Eric, played by Bill Selig, visits his school library where a mousey lunatic, played by Catherine Robe, has commenced a killing spree. Jane, the schizophrenic killer, holds Eric hostage while a gang of sadistic police threaten to storm the building...
...Neither Selig nor Robe handle the transition between plotlines smoothly. Selig is forced to beg and grovel to Robe and the emotional fireworks don't suit him well. His face is expressive but his delivery is awkward. As Susan, Robe resorts to clipped anunciation and a martinet's strut to connvey emotional distance. Despite Robe's best efforts. Susan remains an unplansible caricature of promiscuity and icy reserve. Robe has a much firmer grasp of Susan. Whining, shuffling, and grimacing, Susan amuses an undercurrent of threat...
Jonathan Weinber handles his role as the police captain with droll aplomb. As a portrait of savagery, the captain delightedly lectures on execution and demonstrates on a dog Selig displays appropriate confusion and horror at such antics...