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...years on the WB's forgettable Jack & Jill--in reality, Kirk, 34, is an accomplished stage actor. He did his first play at 7 (Brecht, no less) and has since racked up accolades that include an Obie for playing the blind man in Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion!--"the other gay play of the '90s," says Kirk, who reprised the role in the movie...
...Prejean, the spiritual adviser who brings salvation to a death-row inmate, the role for which Susan Sarandon won an Academy Award. The score is by Jake Heggie, a gifted purveyor of bittersweet art songs, and the libretto is by playwright-opera buff Terrence McNally (The Lisbon Traviata, Love! Valour! Compassion!). Will this brand-name opera be agitprop or art--or both? Whatever the results, the timing of the premiere at the War Memorial Opera House on Oct. 7, less than two months after Texas' controversial double execution, could scarcely be better...
...especially not with the work in question. Reviewers won't be allowed to pass judgment until the official opening in two weeks (McNally, author of Master Class and Love! Valour! Compassion!, is still tinkering). But a first look reveals a play far less incendiary than charged...
...Manhattan Theatre Club, which plans to stage the play this fall. Citing security concerns, the theater abruptly canceled the production in May; then, after a barrage of bad publicity and cries of censorship, reversed itself and said the show would go on after all. Which means McNally (Love! Valour! Compassion!; Master Class; the book for Ragtime) in all likelihood has a hit on his hands. And maybe even, once the political posturing is cleared away, an intriguing new play. When: Opens Oct. 13 at the City Center in Manhattan...
...that just one week prior to the assault, the same two police officers heroically re-entered a collapsing building in order to save its inhabitants, despite orders to withdraw from the scene because their own lives were in danger. The tragedy of these two Brooklyn cops, models of both valour and depravity, is more poignant than anything the big-screen could offer. Unfortunately, the characters in the real life drama can expect no respite from the closing credits...