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Top Girls explores relationships between women in the changing modern world where they are often faced with the choice of being a good wife and mother or a successful career woman. Animosity combined with grudging admiration pervades many of the relationships between the women of one group with...
The play opens with a celebratory dinner for Marlene, who has just received a promotion over a man at her job with a career placement agency in London. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (Adele Jerista), the world traveler, Lady Nijo (Scottie...
Subsequent acts speeded up relative to the first act’s lagging pace. It turns out that the dinner guests were merely figments of Marlene’s imagination, elements of her psychological struggle for peace with her past. The same actors reappeared in acts...
I?ve blown out all those candles for deceased artistes Marlene Dietrich, Richard Rodgers, Ogden Nash, Cornell Woolrich, S.J. Perelman and Ted ?Dr. Seuss? Geisel. Two more honorees, Leni Riefenstahl and Bob Hope, were still alive when they got reached triple digits, though they have since ceded to mortality. I...
Apparently some scenes and songs are missing, prompting Cohen to call this "the kind of movie that begs for a restored and expanded release on DVD." I'd also ask for a CD of the score, with Seuss lyrics and music by Frederick Hollander, the cut-rate Kurt Weill who...