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Theater: Sam Waterston plays Lincoln in a dated epic...
Less remarkable, though full of courage and emotional range, is Sam Waterston's portrayal of the backwoodsman turned reluctant candidate in a dozen scenes spanning a quarter-century, as Lincoln rises from law student to President-elect. He is the center of an impressive production of a once esteemed play that is now interesting chiefly as a barometer of how tastes, political mores and media behavior have changed...
...Waterston struggles manfully to explicate this underwritten character, never more successfully than when he capers around the stage in delight at a couple of his own irreverent jokes. But it is a measure of how stately and hollow the enterprise is that the grandest moments are the scene changes, with their sweeping use of the wide stage, and the special effects of the finale, as a train pulls in to take Lincoln away to Washington, martyrdom and immortality...
Broadway's abuzz with openings, three last week and 11 more this year, including The Kentucky Cycle, part two of Angels in America, a new Neil Simon and revivals starring Richard Chamberlain, Sam Waterston and Brian Bedford. What's missing? New musicals. Only three are set through spring, each rehashing an old story...
Well, for one thing, it's the Clintons' sheer, star-loving promiscuity. Making time during the first 125 days for Billy Crystal, Barbra Streisand, Sharon Stone (twice), Richard Gere, Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Quincy Jones, Sinbad, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Sam Waterston, Hammer, Lindsay Wagner and Judy Collins is a remarkable achievement. When Hillary Rodham Clinton, after seeing Liza Minnelli sing on TV, calls and asks her to stay overnight, it looks frivolous, a little unseemly...