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...showiest piece and ultimately the most moving is Kramer's tussle between hope and despair in Destiny. It is enriching, but not necessary, to know that the work is autobiographical and that its passion-spent central character, Ned Weeks, is a stand-in for the author, who co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis and the more radical ACT UP only to leave each in disappointment at their failure to save lives, not least, prospectively, his own. Ned is as hilariously self-congratulatory and self-critical as he was in the Kramer play that introduced him, The Normal Heart...
...showiest role, Roscoe Lee Browne plays the neighborhood wise man. He - has reached age 65 by staying out of other people's business, suppressing his darkest rages and heeding a back-street seeress who purports to be 322 years old. He is at once dignified and absurd, wrongheaded and admirable. It is such affectionate ambivalence toward all the characters that makes Wilson's play a vivid and uplifting tone poem and never a mere polemic. W.A.H.III
...when Miss Anna learns the truth about her parentage--Deer never allows the audience enough emotional distance to perceive what is happening as mere craftsmanship. She benefits greatly from Kent Stephens' direction and a superb cast. Mitchell, as a woman both addled and coy with age, has the showiest part...
...grace, as well as a challenge to the audience to soar with him. His first afternoon had a couple of rough spots: in the first act he strolled onstage ahead of cue and was stuck watching dances he had nothing to do with. But in the last and showiest act, he silenced any doubts that he would somehow scale down his jumps to what is referred to as the "Balanchine style." He leaped like a cat and, as always, seemed to hang...
...everything but sell popcorn last Friday night. Its fourth annual Midnight Concert, a late-night supper of light, easily-digestible music, strove too hard for broad mass appeal. The program--the most commercial work of Benjamin Britten, the showiest piece of Debussy, and one of the plainest concertii of Mozart--was all butter and no salt...