Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Want to share in the sweaty embraces of Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange? They are entwined in A Streetcar Named Desire. Prefer the wry wit of Alan Alda or the in-your-face comic angst of Judd Hirsch? They play beleaguered husbands and failed fathers in splendid new tragicomedies from Neil Simon and Herb Gardner. If your taste runs to grandes dames, Rosemary Harris enacts the mean matriarch in Simon's previous play, Lost in Yonkers, while Lynn Redgrave evokes the aggrieved wife of a self-anointed genius in Ibsen's The Master Builder...
Straight plays, especially on glum topics, are notoriously hard to presell. But Dorfman's meditation opened to a musical-size advance of $3.4 million, and mixed notices had no evident impact at the box office. Streetcar has amassed an impressive $2.4 million advance, despite having been revived on Broadway just four years ago. Randall's subscription-based troupe, which touts marquee names for each production, has somehow filled seats for three abominable revivals in a row, including last week's Master Builder...
Also notable in her cameo is Jessie Cohen, who waltzes in as the sultry, Southern Blanche Dubois straight from A Streetcar Named Desire. "Not that Tennessee is not a very great writer," she drawls, "but honey--he dropped me right in the center of a nightmare...
...Dresden last April, neo-Nazis threw a Mozambican to his death from a moving streetcar. In May they invaded a tenement in Wittenberg, forcing two Namibians off a fourth-floor balcony and critically injuring them. Two weeks ago, 50 skinheads stormed a center for asylum seekers from the Third World, smashing windows and pummeling residents. No one with a dark skin, police officials say, can feel safe on the streets of eastern Berlin...
...Gone With the Wind; or Errol Flynn, who was charged twice with statutory rape, overpower a protesting heroine who then melts in his arms; or Stanley rape his sister-in-law Blanche du Bois while his wife is in the hospital giving birth to a child in A Streetcar Named Desire. Higher up the cultural food chain, young people can read of date rape in Homer or Jane Austen, watch it in Don Giovanni or Rigoletto...