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...once stuck in the '50s, she loves releasing the adolescent enthusiasm that has been stifled in her mid-life soul. Every mundane moment is suddenly precious: breakfast with her parents and kid sister, singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" in homeroom, catching Dick Clark on the old American Bandstand ("That man never ages!"). She dotes on her angora sweaters and her Iron- Maidenform bras, her mom's Rice Krispies cookies and tremulous advice ("Peggy, you know what a penis is -- stay away from it!"). She enjoys vamping Michael the beatnik, sharing a joint in a moonlit meadow as he howls...
...little-used golden sword on loan from King Arthur, a satanic but tender-hearted Evil (Tim Curry) lifted from Goethe, an outdoorsy-type hero borrowed from Edgar Rice Borroughs (Cruise), a couple of white unicorns stolen from the planet of Pern and a fairy queen cloned from Tinkerbell. Now, 'tis true that no one story or author has a copyright on Good and Evil, but it is definitely a tired plot which leaves the viewer expecting Frodo to walk in at any moment...
Before you can get up on stage and sing "Midnight Train" and Manhattan Transfer arrangements with the Opportunes you have to survive three call backs. The first requirement is a basic proficiency at sight-reading "My Country 'tis of Thee" along with singing sequences of five or six notes at "strange" intervals to test the ears, according to Director Wayne C. Johnson...
Second: Aye, sir, 'tis true, 'tis true. These boys of summer are men of many parts, who must weather the swings and errors of outrageous fortune...
Stoppard has written a play as new as nouvelle cuisine (which, incidentally, it dismisses as passe) and as defiantly déjà vu as Private Lives, Miss Julie and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (allusions to which snake deviously through the plot). On its dazzling surface, The Real Thing is a throwback to the comedies of Oscar Wilde, Noël Coward and Philip Barry. This is love among the leisure classes, in which aristocrats of style spend their time polishing epigrams and tiptoeing into one another's penthouse souls. Stoppard's characters have...