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...came to the fore just as the argument about gays in the military was putting the gay cause at center stage for the first time in U.S. history. With its aggressive scorn for Ronald Reagan and Republicanism; for Mormons and moralizing; and its demonic view of lawyer- dealmaker Roy Cohn, a gay-bashing closet gay and a top-level G.O.P. influence peddler for more than three decades, Angels disproved truisms about the unmarketability of political drama. Instead it compellingly reasserted the theater's place in public debate. Hearteningly to theater partisans, Angels generated excitement about a drama comparable...
...Just when its gears seemed to be meshing smoothly, the Administration announced the resignation of two senior aides: Howard Paster, the President's chief congressional lobbyist, and Roy Neel, the deputy chief of staff. Both men said they were leaving because of the relentless pace of work in the Clinton White House. Paster has not disclosed his plans; Neel is reportedly considering a $500,000-a-year post with a telephone trade association...
...Reagan Era, the plays focus on issues of racism, sexism, sexual preference and AIDS. "Angels in America" traces the AIDS-related death of Roy Cohn, the right-wing assistant to J. Edgar Hoover...
RESHUFFLE THE STAFF -- AND TAKE A BREAK A senior official admitted late last % week that deputy chief of staff Roy Neel will be leaving the Administration within weeks for a job in the private sector, opening the No. 2 management spot. Neel's departure will bolster those in the Administration who wonder what, if anything, can be done to bring more orderly attention to problems. Some hope New York attorney Harold Ickes, who was passed over for the deputy's job in January, will be pressed to fill Neel's shoes. A court-appointed investigator cleared Ickes last week...
...love musicals. But I have never knowingly hummed a show tune. I take it only on faith that Rodgers and Hammerstein were geniuses. Ethel Merman's voice was powerful, sure, and powerfully annoying. Each new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical seems like an ice show putting on airs, Siegfried and Roy with bathos. To a majority of people under 50, I'm convinced, the formal conceit of musicals (a so-so play during which the actors inexplicably sing their hearts out every 10 minutes) is both corny and surreal, like some unpleasant crossbreed of Salvador Dali and Norman Rockwell...