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Strange Places

Posted on November 5, 2014, 10:22 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theater Reviews and Commentary.

Some plays are born strange, some achieve strangeness, and some have strangeness thrust upon them (or upon their characters, at least). We consider one of each type herein.

Tags: Anthony Giardina, Barack Obama, Barrett Wilbert Weed, book club, bullying, Candide, Capitol Hill, Carrie, Carter administration, Charles Isherwood, Christian Slater, City of Conversation, Columbia University, Columbine, comfort zone, conservatives, degenerative disease, Drama Desk Special Awards, Frank Zappa, Georgetown, Gilded Age, grand guignol, Heathers, homophobia, inarticulacy, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jan Maxwell, Jimmy Carter, Kennedys, Kentucky, Kevin Murphy, Laurence O'Keefe, liberals, Lincoln Center, Little Shop of Horrors, Lord of the Rings, Lou Gehrig, Lyndon Johnson, Marisa Tomei, Mean Girls, Michael C. Hall, Minneapolis, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, moral equivalency, MoveOn, New World Stages, Obama inauguration, President Barack Obama, President Johnson, Reagan era, Richard Nixon, Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan, Ryan McCartan, salons, same sex marriage, Supreme Court, Sweeney Todd, The City of Conversation, the One Ring, The Realistic Joneses, Theater of the Absurd, Tina Fey, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts, Vietnam War, Waiting for Godot, Washington, Watergwaqte, Will Eno, Winona Ryder, Wonder Bread
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Revival Meetings: ANYTHING GOES, HAIR, and FOLLIES

Posted on February 1, 2012, 10:25 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theater Reviews and Commentary.

Revivals pose a unique set of challenges to those who stage them, and a unique set of questions to be considered by a contemporary audience. But great shows get invited back.

Tags: 1930s, 1934, 1935, 1960s, 1962, 1968, 1970s, 1971, A Little Night Music, Aimee Semple McPherson, Amazon, Anything Goes, Aquarius, Bernadette Peters, Broadway, Buddy's Folly, C.S. Lewis, celebrity criminals, chronological snobbery, Cole Porter, Company, Could I Leave You?, Draft, Easy to Be Hard, Eileen Rodgers, Elain Page, Florenz Ziegfeld, Follies, Gabriel Blow Your Horn, Gerome Ragni, ghosts, Guy Bolton, Guys and Dolls, Hair, hippies, Howard Lindsay, Ingmar Bergman, Initials, iTunes, James Goldman, James Rado, Jan Maxwell, Jeanne Aubert, Joel Grey, John Weidman, Kennedy Center, Let the Sun Shine In, Losing My Mind, Loveland, Manchester England, Merrily We Roll Along, MOrro Castle disaster, Oscar Hammerstein II, P.G. Wodehouse, pederasty, problem comedies, Reno Sweeney, revivals, Russel Crouse, Sexual Liberation, shipwreck, showgirls, SMiles of a Summer Night, Sodomy, South Pacific, Stephen Sondheim, Sutton Foster, the Draft, thrill of travel, Timothy Crouse, Vietnam War, Where Do I Go, William Shakespeare, YouTube
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