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...forum, held in Sever Hall, was sponsored by the Harvard Political Union and attended by about 50 people, including ROTC midshipmen and cadets, opponents and supporters of the council proposal, and members of Harvard's gay community...
...Birdcage has made Lane a movie star, but Forum shows his true home is the stage. On his shoulders--so eloquent in a shrug or a shudder--he carries this burly romp, and a good share of Broadway's hopes for a year worth singing about...
...revivals are indeed something familiar: Rodgers and Hammerstein's King opened in 1951, Stephen Sondheim's Forum in 1962; both works were made into popular films and have been previously exhumed on Broadway. So why revive these now classic shows...
...revival, you come in humming the score. Sondheim's famous opening tune for Forum--Comedy Tonight--is brilliantly refreshed by director Jerry Zaks into a circus of Technicolor bawdry. He parades all the fine, low comedians and, for a hilarious moment, some tragedians too. Like Zaks' revival of Guys and Dolls, this Forum is a celebration of shtick. If a gag was ever funny, from Plautus' time to ours, he'll spit on it and spin it until you have to laugh unashamedly...
...when he does it, and a pratfall a plie. He also elevates some of his more plebeian colleagues. Mark Linn-Baker, no natural farceur, is at first uneasy as the fluttery Hysterium. But when he gets into dead-virgin drag and Lane sings a mock-passionate "You're lovely," Forum reaches its Seven Hills peak...