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Safe to say that expectations ran high for this event. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches is, after all, one of the uncontested dramatic triumphs of the decade: a box-office smash, a genuine epic and the recipient of four Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize. One might say, then, that the transcendence of director Leah Altman's production is somehow inevitable, that it "comes with the territory...
...subtitle Millennium Approaches refers not only to the mid-1980s setting of the play, but, more trenchantly, to an imminent judgment--divine, humane, you name it. The numerous personalities in Angels in America are all fending off the scourges of their particular moment in history: AIDS, bribery, addiction, isolation. Prior Walter (Jesse Hawkes '99) announces early in the play that he has HIV, or as he terms it, with typical flamboyant humeur, "The Foreign Lesion; I'm a Lesion-aire, Lesion-aire's disease...
Whatever the future of Millennium Approaches on film, the play is currently in the best of hands. Do not let the dopey advertisements with the Ziggy-faced Men-In-Suits keep you away; do not let anything keep you away. Enough cannot be said in praise of Kushner's play, where malignancy--both medical and personal--is more terrifying for being so unfixed, but where courage is always a choice. With this focused, challenging, inspiring production, Altman and her colleagues have made that choice
...Indeed, the only way the controversial trade measure is likely to beat the millennium is if the Gephardt clique takes a beating in the 1998 races ? an unlikely scenario, considering the heaps of cash that Big Labor offers its stalwarts...
...surely, if drastic changes are needed to redraw district lines to more accurately reflect the population, they should be made. When historians look back at the census of the millennium, we don't want them to take the political tenor of the country into their consideration of numbers...