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...solved by a momentary sense of breath that the stars bring us." Instead of thinking about how to cut costs and reach a broader audience, producers who employ stars typically have to accede to higher salaries and shorter runs and thus raise ticket prices -- to a $50 top for Streetcar and Maiden -- to try to recoup faster...
Want to share in the sweaty embraces of Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange? They are entwined in A Streetcar Named Desire. Prefer the wry wit of Alan Alda or the in-your-face comic angst of Judd Hirsch? They play beleaguered husbands and failed fathers in splendid new tragicomedies from Neil Simon and Herb Gardner. If your taste runs to grandes dames, Rosemary Harris enacts the mean matriarch in Simon's previous play, Lost in Yonkers, while Lynn Redgrave evokes the aggrieved wife of a self-anointed genius in Ibsen's The Master Builder...
Straight plays, especially on glum topics, are notoriously hard to presell. But Dorfman's meditation opened to a musical-size advance of $3.4 million, and mixed notices had no evident impact at the box office. Streetcar has amassed an impressive $2.4 million advance, despite having been revived on Broadway just four years ago. Randall's subscription-based troupe, which touts marquee names for each production, has somehow filled seats for three abominable revivals in a row, including last week's Master Builder...
Also notable in her cameo is Jessie Cohen, who waltzes in as the sultry, Southern Blanche Dubois straight from A Streetcar Named Desire. "Not that Tennessee is not a very great writer," she drawls, "but honey--he dropped me right in the center of a nightmare...
...Dresden last April, neo-Nazis threw a Mozambican to his death from a moving streetcar. In May they invaded a tenement in Wittenberg, forcing two Namibians off a fourth-floor balcony and critically injuring them. Two weeks ago, 50 skinheads stormed a center for asylum seekers from the Third World, smashing windows and pummeling residents. No one with a dark skin, police officials say, can feel safe on the streets of eastern Berlin...