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...Trail will then lead you to the North End, Boston's version Little Italy, home of bakeries and Italian Restaurants of varying quality and authenticity. Several yuppie-chic restaurants have opened to cater to the new residents who have moved into some of the neighborhood's recently gentrified buildings...
...domesticity, no longer content to be utterly reliant upon her husband, she begins challenging previously assumed verities. Convinced that her husband is having an affair with one or more of his undergraduates, she leaves him and seeks solace in the arms of various potential lovers. These include Lily, a chic bisexual who is exploring the butch-femme aesthetic, Martin, a Belgian electronics dealer and her dentist, Dr. Lipi...
...delirious whirl of the Manhattan club scene depicted in Social Disease (1986), le plus chic twosome is Guy and Venice Huber, dancing their youth away -- and, because they are Rudnick people, constantly refreshing it. With its Evelyn Waugh drawl, Social Disease is Rudnick's revenge on the less- than-zilch nightlife novels of the mid-'80s. So I'll Take It (1989) must be his anti-Portnoy. A Jewish boy who loves and enjoys his mother -- call the cops! Paul's mom Selma and her sisters Lillian and Hilda are the models for Hedy Reckler and her bargain-hunter siblings...
...with Me cuts off before it culminates, just as the music and singing are reaching a climax. In other songs, the scanning of religious symbols becomes a numbing succession, like a bored teenager channel-surfing cable networks. Judas the betrayer. Zap. MTV. Zap. The heavenly host. It's religiosity chic and not the thing itself. Something essential is missing -- true faith perhaps. Zap. The trigger finger of Depeche Mode (French for fast fashion) flips the channel changer to the next emotion, the next trend...
That seems likely. To be sure, there is much to cavil about in conception and execution, above all the fact that Andrews does not get enough to do. Looking chic and ageless, taking command without commandeering center stage, she electrifies the audience at the first-act curtain with Could I Leave You? and again near the finale with Getting Married Today. She acts rather than belts, taking time and not challenging her vocal reach as she did at the 1991 Tony Awards (satirized by Forbidden Broadway, to the tune of I Could Have Danced All Night, as "I couldn...