Word: yahia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...downside are the two mothers (Leslie Yahia and Jill Weitzner) who charm us during musical numbers but appear awkward when not dancing. Though the play originally calls for middle-aged fathers in the roles of the conniving parents, the choice of actresses may have been less disturbing in this instance if the women acted as either men or as more feminine mothers. With gardening clothes, powdered hair, and hunched posture, the characters seem unusually old and androgynous: our curiosity about their gender serves to confuse, not entertain...