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Long Runs: Well, there's The Mamet Plays, which proves that American playwrighting talent is not yet dead; Annie, which proves that the American Musical Comedy is not yet dead; The All-Night Strut, which proves that the music of the '30s and '40s is not yet dead; and The Man of La Mancha, which proves that Richard Kiley is not yet dead. At the Charles Playhouse (426-6912), the Shubert (426-6444), the Boston Rep. Theatre (423-6580), and the Music Hall (423-3300), respectively...
Remember the '50s. Nuf said. Remember the '40s, when our fathers died to rid the world of Capitalism's Evil Mutant, while our economy entered the state capitalist stage, run by and for big businessmen. Remember the '30s, when our poliomyelitic system acquired the leg braces that allowed it to keep playing hardball--braces like unemployment compensation, Social Security, deposit insurance, to make sure it never bottomed out again. Remember the '20s--the corporations are much bigger now, and they've expanded from Peoria to Pretoria...
Annie opens tonight at the Shubert. One underwhelmed critic described the show as "Oliver in drag," but audiences from New York to London have adored this musical based on the '30s Little Orphan Annie comic strip. American history and political science concentrators should note with interest the portrayal of ultra-rich industrialist Daddy Warbucks as FDR's old pal. English and Slavic lit. concentrators, likewise, should note the Lolita-like flavor of Annie's and Daddy's relationship. The rest of us can enjoy the Christmas tree. The box office number, if you're twisted enough to want...
...World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter, an interesting revue. For info on both shows, call the Playhouse at 426-6912; be sure to ask about student rush seats. The Boston Repertory Theater is also offering a revue, this one a "classy, sassy musical celebration of the '30s and '40s" called The All-Night Strut. Call...
...Within a few years (and a few pages) a lot of poets are sounding like Pound. The muse seems hardly to notice World War I; the next conflagration receives extended attention from writers as diverse as Randall Jarrell, Karl Shapiro and Robinson Jeffers. Teacher-poets appear in the '30s and '40s: R.P. Blackmur, William Empson, Allen Tate. A generation later is heard the dry academic rustle of those they taught...