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Racing to the Rays. Americans have always liked a good tan, but during the 1980s they found California, Texas and Florida -- which accounted for 52% of the nation's population growth -- irresistible...
...miles away. It was a bright spring Saturday, April 26, 1986. A townsman came in from sunning himself on a roof, exclaiming that he had never seen anything like it, he had turned brown in no time at all. He had what would later be known as a nuclear tan. A few hours afterward, the man was taken away in an ambulance, convulsed with uncontrollable vomiting. Soon many of his neighbors were coughing, throwing up and complaining of headaches and a metallic taste in their mouth...
...this newspaper correctly noted in its summer issue, Mower residents have their own private courtyard. This courtyard is especially useful in the spring months for working on one's tan...
Still, Kelly Matthews should be commended for her dead-pan Athena, Branion for his studied assimilation of the roles of both Orestes and Apollo, and Robyn Fass for her humorous Clytemnestra. If nothing else one can be grateful to Tan, his crew and the cast for bringing Mayer's work to the public...
Ultimately, it seems, the demands of Tan's interpretation are too great for this production. The fragile intersection of the olympic and the ordinary are too often upset by a general lack of momentum, technical shortcomings and over-acting that reduce some of Mayer's most powerful lines to farce...