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Gratuitous Violins: Tribes
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Stringing together words into sentences. Monday, September 3, 2012. At the Barrow Street Theatre off-Broadway. Gratuitous Violins rating: * *1/2 out of * *. I love just about everything about Nina Raine. It made me think how we all belong to many different tribes. Some we're born into, like our family, and others we choose, like our profession. Tribes. Tells the story of a young deaf man who, for the first time, becomes immersed in the deaf community and the friction that causes with his hearing family.
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Gratuitous Violins: Married and Counting
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Stringing together words into sentences. Sunday, August 12, 2012. Watching Married and Counting. Made me sorry that Stephen Mosher and Pat Dwyer have completed their wedding tour because I would love to have been a part of it. But I'm glad that I got to join them for the world premiere of the moving documentary chronicling their journey. Where its status kept changing. Have laughed too loudly at an old picture of the two of them. I cried, too. How could you not at a film about weddings? Piper says he's m...
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Gratuitous Violins: The House of Blue Leaves
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Stringing together words into sentences. Tuesday, April 26, 2011. The House of Blue Leaves. The House of Blue Leaves, at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre. Gratuitous Violins rating: * * 1/2 out of * *. How fitting that Ben Stiller. S character in the Broadway revival of The House of Blue Leaves. Is a zookeeper because this is one wild story: turbulent, messy, emotional - and hilarious. The House of Blue Leaves. Takes place on Oct. 4, 1965, the day Pope Paul VI. Artie and Bunny pin their hopes for success o...
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Gratuitous Violins: Harvey
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Stringing together words into sentences. Sunday, August 19, 2012. At Studio 54 on Broadway. Gratuitous Violins rating: * 1/2 out of * *. Even though it closed earlier this month, I just want to say a few things about the Broadway revival of Harvey. Of the TV series The Big Bang Theory. I'd never seen Harvey. Not even the movie with Jimmy Stewart. But I knew it was about a man and his imaginary friend, a 6-foot, 3/12-inch pooka. Had been awarded the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. I guess he's is the kind ...
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Gratuitous Violins: Death of a Salesman
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Stringing together words into sentences. Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Death of a Salesman. Death of a Salesman. At Broadway's Barrymore Theatre. Gratuitous Violins rating: * * out of * *. I read the play in high school and a few years ago I watched a production taped for TV but until the current Broadway revival. I'd never seen Arthur Miller. S 1949 Tony and Pulitzer-winner Death of a Salesman. I loved Hoffman's performance. He's a very expressive actor, with a jowly face and a bit of a gut. At times...Perha...
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Gratuitous Violins: End of the Rainbow
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Stringing together words into sentences. Monday, May 14, 2012. End of the Rainbow. End of the Rainbow. At Broadway's Belasco Theatre. Gratuitous Violins rating: * out of * *. I'm old enough to remember when The Wizard of Oz. Was a highly anticipated television. Event Before VCRs, that was the way to see it and it only happened once a year. (Those flying monkeys still freak me out.). As an adult, I saw Judy Garland. So watching British actress Tracie Bennett. End of the Rainbow. Played by Tom Pelphrey.
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Gratuitous Violins: Peter and the Starcatcher
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Stringing together words into sentences. Sunday, May 20, 2012. Peter and the Starcatcher. Peter and the Starcatcher. At Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Gratuitous Violins rating: * *1/2 out of * *. Sure, I like plays that weigh in on serious subjects. But every once in awhile, it's nice to balance those doses of stark reality with a touch of whimsy. Peter and the Starcatcher. An energetic and exhilarating prequel to Peter Pan. A British ambassador and his precocious young daughter. Had the voice and ...
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Gratuitous Violins: Angels in America
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Stringing together words into sentences. Friday, April 22, 2011. Angels in America, at the Signature Theatre Company. Gratuitous Violins rating: * * out of * *. I've read Tony Kushner. S prize-winning Angels in America. And I've seen the 2003 HBO miniseries. So I went into last Sunday's marathon performance at New York's Signature Theatre. Thinking I knew what to expect. Well, taking in both parts - Millennium Approaches. Which closes on Sunday, is the first New York revival since the original. Urie, fro...
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Gratuitous Violins: The Normal Heart
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Stringing together words into sentences. Tuesday, July 5, 2011. The Normal Heart, at Broadway's Golden Theatre. Gratuitous Violins rating: * *. Out of * *. I saw The Normal Heart. S 1985 work, this year's Tony. Winner for Best Revival of a Play, was so powerful and performed by such a remarkable ensemble that I don't think I've been as deeply affected by anything I've seen onstage since I started going to the theatre in 2007. S Angels in America. Is searing, full of anger and references to the Holocaust.
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Gratuitous Violins: One Man, Two Guvnors
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Stringing together words into sentences. Saturday, August 25, 2012. One Man, Two Guvnors. One Man, Two Guvnors. At Broadway's Music Box Theatre. Gratuitous Violins rating: * * out of * *. I always say it's easy to make me cry, harder to make me laugh. Well, One Man, Two Guvnors. Tony winner James Corden. A teddy bear of a man, is a big part of what makes the play so irresistible. Stuffed into a three-piece suit that's a little too small and perpetually hungry, he's hapless and yet so sympathetic....If it...
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