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Restricted View: Safe at home with our beautiful prize
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Monday, August 1, 2011. Safe at home with our beautiful prize. Since Celia's baby was born, she had a new sense of her mental solidity and wisdom. It seemed clear that where there was a baby, things were right enough, and that error, in general, was a mere lack of that central poising force.". George Eliot, Middlemarch. So, the happy ending: We have a son! His name is Martin George. He was not quite as enormous as predicted. August 2, 2011 at 7:19 PM. August 3, 2011 at 2:26 PM. August 4, 2011 at 12:34 PM.
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Restricted View: The king's good servant
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Saturday, October 25, 2008. The king's good servant. My review of the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival. Of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons. Is in this week's Commonweal. Once again, you've got to subscribe to read it online. I love this play, so I was disappointed to see it so poorly treated. I have also been disappointed by the lazy criticism I've read since I turned in my review. Brantley's review in the NYT. Thank God, as I often do, for Michael Feingold. I've also been surprised by a...
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Restricted View: Tony memories
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Monday, June 13, 2011. So little attention was I paying in the run-up to the Tonys last night that I didn't even know the show had moved from Radio City to the Beacon until it began. From where I sit, the move was an upgrade - the broadcast actually seemed professionally produced (as befits a show that pays tribute to live theatre). The performers seemed able to hear the orchestra! What a difference that makes. In terms of professionalism and general skill, the opening "It's not just for gays anymore!
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Restricted View: Time to start getting the nets out
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Friday, April 23, 2010. Time to start getting the nets out. I always assumed that Anyone Can Whistle. Made some kind of sense. I knew it was whimsical and wacky and all that, but I figured, if I saw the whole thing intact, it would have some. Discernible throughline. Not so much, as it turns out! This is too bad for me, because I've been staging imaginary productions of Anyone Can Whistle. In my head for years, based on the 1994 Carnegie Hall concert version. Of Arthur Laurents getting off the hook?
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Restricted View: Brighton Gone Dark
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Friday, November 6, 2009. I have mixed feelings about the suprise commercial flop. Of "The Neil Simon Plays" - despite the critical success of Brighton Beach Memoirs. On the one hand, it means the words "Neil Simon" - even coupled with the word "revival" - are not enough to sell tickets these days. I think that's a good thing, generally, for Broadway. On the other hand: this was an exceptionally good revival, and it's not so great for Broadway when excellent work goes unrewarded. Really felt like a play.
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Restricted View: Into the words
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Friday, June 3, 2011. I got Stephen Sondheim's book Finishing the Hat. I was surprised, then, by all the serious reviews of Finishing the Hat. I saw, and by how they continued to trickle out throughout the spring. I was finally moved to write about it myself by reading Judith Flanders's take. In the Times Literary Supplement. First, she says this, which I think is just right:. Is, overall, an improvement on the admittedly flawed original). But I found it fascinating - as I think any fan would. That reall...
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Restricted View: Krup you
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Thursday, August 11, 2011. Previously on Restricted View, we noted. With approval that Stephen Sondheim does not like it when someone levels a negative judgment against a work of theatre that he or she has not seen. When John Lahr did so with Sweeney Todd. According to the account in Finishing the Hat. Sondheim complained to the editor and "then wrote Lahr himself a letter, saying that although it was his privilege to give a show both barrels of his contempt, I thought he ought to see it first.". Audra M...
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Restricted View: Oh, is that on tonight?
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Sunday, June 12, 2011. Oh, is that on tonight? For example, I saw Arcadia. Which I thought was quite good. It has a big cast with several very strong performances - in general I thought the British cast members were stronger than the Americans, and if I were to recommend individual actors for Tony nominations, Billy Crudup would probably be the last name on my list. And Billy Crudup was the only member of that cast to be nominated. Hooray? I also saw That Championship Season. Last year I complained.
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Restricted View: Was that a farce?
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Was that a farce? I've accepted that the Tony Awards broadcast is primarily an advertisement for Broadway - it's not really about honoring excellence in theatre, although that may happen, if there's time. I don't like it, and I still complain about it, but I understand that's how it works. But can't it at least be a good. But prerecorded vocals are not an ideal fix when you are trying to convince people that live theatre in New York City is worth their time and money. Other thou...
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Restricted View: Do what I'm tellin' ya!
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007. Do what I'm tellin' ya! I know you know Judy Garland. And you probably know Jennifer. Holliday, but if you are under the age of 40,there's a good chance you're having trouble conjuring up a mental image of Judy Holliday. If that's the case, you need to stop everything and go add Born Yesterday. To your Netflix queue. And bump it to the top. Go ahead, I'll wait. I don't think Born Yesterday. It seems appropriate that Joe Gillis should be a nonentity, at least in his relations...
