Word: baranski
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Elliot Loves, which opened off-Broadway last week in an elegant staging by Mike Nichols, starts with a solo lament by a middle-aged man (Anthony Heald) on the verge of proposing marriage. It ends with him and his intended (Christine Baranski) having their first really honest conversation, via the telephone. Safely alone, if groping toward connection, they engage in dialogue by means of shared soliloquy. In the middle, the woman meets the man's old high school buddies -- an encounter that the lovers interpret in opposite ways and analyze to oblivion. Feiffer deftly satirizes self-awareness and communication, even...
ELLIOT LOVES. Mike Nichols directing, Jules Feiffer writing and two-time Tony- winner Christine Baranski acting. How wrong can you go? This tale of mid- life crisis-cum-romance is at Chicago's Goodman, but can Broadway...