Word: spinster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hang out with the big kids (a.k.a. grad students) when they gather to watch a double-feature on their big-screen TV. First up is the Bette Davis classic "Now, Voyager" about a Boston spinster who finds romance after therapy. Then stick around for "The Talk of the Town," starring Cary Grant as a self-proclaimed anarchist framed for murder. Graduate Student Lounge, Lehman Hall, Harvard Yard. 495-2255. "Now, Voyager" at 6 p.m. "The Talk of the Town" at 8 p.m. FREE...
...seduces her gay half brother's lover, says she's pregnant and steals $10,000. Don Roos' Seven Characters in Search of a Spanking is pure modern romance: anguished, raunchy, caring. Praise be the entire cast and, what the heck, a Nobel Prize to Lisa Kudrow as a twisted spinster looking for love...
Struthers, rather ironically, stars as the despotic spinster Miss Hannigan in the 20th anniversary production of the American classic Annie, which appeared at the Wang from November 3-8. And while it may seem odd, Struthers takes on this new challenge with abandon, even going as far as ripping the limbs from an innocent doll while belting out the lyrics to the song "Little Girls": "Little cheeks, little teeth/Everything around me is little/If I wring little necks/Surely I will get an acquittal...Some night I'll straighten their curls/ Send a flood, send the flu/Anything that...
Another very important character who changes throughout the course of the play is Miss Ronberry, played with much elegance by Catherine Gowl. Miss Ronberry is able to accept her status as a spinster by the end of the show, although in the beginning she desperately seeks a husband, flirting with the rich and handsome Squire (Alexis George Burgess, in another humorous role). By the end of the play Ronberry has become a devoted and caring teacher, one who has learned to think of someone besides herself and whose true pleasure in life is educating those who are less fortunate, ensuring...
...richest, strangest creature is Lucia, a twisted spinster who loves gay men (most especially her dead brother) with the desperation and security of caring for someone who can never accept her and thus never reject her. She thinks of herself, of course, as the one normal person. "You have a death wish," she tells Bill. "That's so selfish. I have one too, but I direct it toward others." Lucia could be just comedy's favorite device, the useful fool, but Kudrow makes her funny and sympathetic. Her body language is eloquent--she walks like a constipated stork when...