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...play about performing, a director had better have damn good performers, and undergraduate director Eric E. Hyett has only mixed success in his Kirkland House production of the show. There are few in this mainly competent cast that dazzle the way the script calls them to. But what the cast lacks in proficiency it valiantly compensates for with energy. And a cast that puts on a spirited, even merely competent production of a great work like A Chorus Line can delight audiences...
...Jacqueline Sloan), a fallen star and Zach's former lover. But the other dancers, especially Sheila (Lyra O. Barrera) and Diana (Susan Levine) do not escape his scrutiny. Much of the text of the musical seems dated, especially some of the material on homosexuality; but the power of the script is a timeless power based in poignant statements about the nature of performance and, not coincidentally, pain...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern has its moments of tedium--it is, after all, quite a long play--but the actors in the title roles sufficiently eliminate it with their quick repartee. Some pregnant pauses in the script are wisely omitted, and the supporting cast carries its weight...
...risk ambition and disappointment. But unlike Fences, a kitchen-sink drama firmly grounded in reality, Piano Lesson seems haunted by specters of the brutal past -- as haunted as the U.S. still is by the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow. Director Lloyd Richards and a splendid cast give the script the production it deserves. That was not, alas, the Broadway fate in 1988 of Wilson's gripping but mishandled and commercially disastrous Joe Turner's Come and Gone...
...principal lyricist. But the show's intention to portray Martin Luther King Jr.'s human side (although not, producers insist, his womanizing) nettled Coretta Scott King, who has legal rights over the commercial use of her husband's image in the U.S. To win back her support, the script is being substantially rewritten, with greater emphasis on King's leadership and (unsurprisingly) Coretta's historic role...