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...musicals. In trying to decry the decaying world of the modern hero by updating The Odyssey. Vonnegut chokes Happy Birthday Wands June with clamsy ploys to manipulate the audience. Broad and almost cliched themes, sheltered and stereotypical characters, and dialogue which through witty is ultimately limp scar the play. Wanda June is a playwright's mangled by better left in the closet...
...reworking his dialogue and transitions But he couldn't pull off the new ending; the play leaves us lost in the middle of a labyrinth. After the drama's short run of 142 performances. Vonnegut acknowledged the cast had salvaged what they could from the play, and that Wanda June had gracefully died a well-deserved death. Too bad Jamie Orienstein, the novice director of the K. House production, didn't follow Vonnegut's example and let the play gather dust...
...cast of Wanda June cannot be blamed for its weakness. Inspired acting saves the play from utter despair as the actors attempt to adapt the material But the acting ultimately only frustrates the audience, which wants to see more of their wares and less of their struggling to convey the play's tangled plot...
...Wanda June's modern-day Odysseus, mega-war hero and adventurer Harold Ryan who is played superbly by Mark Lupke returns home to New York in the early '70s after a seven-year hiatus But he finds that the world no longer glories in its romantic, violent heroes Nor is his white. Penelope (Nora Seton) a mindless devotedly passionate house wife any longer During her husband's long absence she has gone to college, presently she's being courted by two debonair suitors. Herb Shuttle (Doug Curtis) and Norbert Woodly (Andrew Atkinson...
Rakowski has lost the support of some of those who were closest to him. His exwife, Violinist Wanda Wilkomirska, is one of eight intellectuals who have bravely signed a petition protesting martial...