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GOING5 ON ABOUT TO^^'N Absolut words and pop tunes about a racially mi.\ed THE THEATRE . V neighborhood. At the heart of it is the friend S•M •T ' •T . F • 5 ship of two little girls, one white, the other black, who are delightfully portrayed by An TO baby boomers and their chil 17 18 19 20 21 22 gela (3oethals and Chandra Wilson. The un dren, the term "social club" has dercurrent of serious comment on race connotations both tragic and suspi 23 24 25 26 doesn't add much, but every humorous scene cious. To their parents, at least those scores a bull's-eye. Also with Kim Staunton, Wendell Pierce, and Holly Felton. Mark Bro- parents who grew up in the thirties edy, with Victoria Tennant, Lee Richardson, kaw directed. (5/6/91) (Second Stage The and forties in certain parts of New Nicolas Coster, and Linda Thorson. Directed atre, Broadway at 76th St. 873-6103. Closes York, the phrase meant something by Stephen Porter. Previews through June June 30.) altogether more innocent: a meeting 25. Opens June 26 at 6:45. (Circle in the Gypsy—The Tyne Daly-led revival of the great Scmare, 50lh St. west of Broadwav. 239-6200.) Laurents-Styne-Sondheim musical has re place for teen-agers. "The clubs were Lips Together, Teeth Apart—Christine Baranski, turned to Broadway for a limited engage spawned out of a need for space and Anthony Heald, Swoosie Kurtz, and Nathan ment. It is so delightful—and the cast so privacy," says Leah Kornfeld Fried Lane in a new play by Terrence McNally. engaging—that we think anyone would be the NEV YORKER John Tillinger directed. Previews through happier for having seen it. (3ne suggestion: man, whose play about one of them, June 23. Opens June 25 at 8. (Manhattan don't applaud when Mama Rose comes down "Club Soda," opens this week at the Theatre Club, at Citv Center, 131 W. 55lh the aisle (you'll drown out the first number). WPA. "In neighborhoods where ev St. 581-7907.) (12/4/89) (Marquis, Broadway at 45th St. eryone lived in small apartments, and Oguri-Hangan Terute-Hime—The Yokohama 307-4100.) Boat Theatre of Japan in an experimental The Haunted Host and Safe Sex—A double bill table of contents where those apartments often had work. In Japanese, with English supertitles. consisting of a 1964 comedy by Robert Pat large families in them, there was no Opens June 20 ai 8, and runs through June rick and a revised 1987 comedy by Harvey where for kids to go to, so a group of 22. (Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Am Fierstein. Mr. Fierstein and Jason Workman JUNE 24, 1991 sterdam Ave. at 112lh St. 662-2133.) make up the cast of both plays. (Actors guys would get together and rent a The first of three plays in the New Playhouse, 100 Seventh Ave. S. 691-6226.) i basement." The basements were gen York Shakespeare Festival's free summer se- The Hunchback of Notre Dame—Everett erally in two- or three-family dwell nes in the Park. Raul Julia, Christopher Quinton's new show, which is billed as "a « talk o, • Walken Mary Beth Hurt, and Kathryn quasimusical." (Charles Ludlam Theatre, Pure 21 ings, and the rent, .says Friedman, was Mclsle lead ihe cast. Directed by Joe Dow- 1 Sheridan Square. 691-2271. ClosesJune 23.) "dirt cheap—maybe thirty dollars a Ung. Previews begin June 21. (Delacorle, 1Hate Hamlet—In Paul Rudnick s jokey farce, 26 month." Only young men were al Central Park near W. 81st St. For informa- Nicol Williamson gives a stunning comedy "FORAIN" . John S.r. lowed as members, but the clubs lion about tickets, which are required, call performance as the ghost ofJohn Barrymore, luxury. 27 861-7277.) summoned to aid a young Hijllywood actor would have socials, when young wom Prom (Queens Unchained—A musical by Larry who has been booked to play Hamlet m the .. Mavis Gall""^ en would be invited to dance^—to 78s. Goodsight, Keith Herrmann, and Stephen Park Mr. Williamson is ably supported by ("No parents ever set foot in these uitkin. In previews. (Village Gate, 160 some of the other actors, but the sh()vv boils 30 places," Friedman says.) Bleecker St. 475-5120.) down to a marvellous solo turn. (4/22/91) Deborah Gottlieb CarriiOi Some clubs, inevitably, were more Stitsha—A play by Com Mhlanga, presented CVVaker 219 W. 48th St. 582-4022. ^reporter at largf "••••••••• 36 by Zimbabwe's Amakhosi Theatre. Opens rinan prestigious than others. In this cate runs through June 23. (P.S. jAci?E Ma^son?BrInd NEW-The comedian brmgs «•""* gory along the Brownsville-to-East 122, 150 First Ave., at 9th St. 477-5288.) (*) his one-man show " Broadway again. (Neil 38 Flatbush axis, the setting for her au Theatre—A wordless play bv Mladen Simon, 250W. 52nd St. 307-4100.) Matenc, presented by the Open Stage/ Lost in Yonkers—There's not one ghmmer of '""'"OM tobiographical play, Fnedman re Obala company, of Yugoslavia. Opens June honesty or authenticity in this family melo 55 members fondly the Hi-Hats ( They drama"by Neil Simon.Set in Yonkers during theatre . •••••••• Milton were a speck younger than my Kitchenu 512 W. 19ththroughSt. 255-5793.)June 22.C^)(The the Second World War, it's about what hap l^raincr 74 lODAY Is My Birthday—A play by the late pens when a cowering, pathetic rnan has to jylim' group") and the Cherokees ("They ladeusz Kantor, presented by Poland's leave his two adolescent sons with his intimi C"Y Hau " 76 were named after a Charlie Barnet Cncot 2 company. In Polish. OpMs June 18 dating mother for the better part of a year. books ••••••.. y Z-oi""' tune"). "And there really was a Club at 7:30, and runs through June 23. (La (3/11/91) (Richard Rodgers, 226 W. 46th Mama Annex, 66 E. 4th St. 475-7710.) (*) Menand 81 Soda," she assures us. When asked to Lusting^After Piping's Wife—A comedy by Sam Lou'^ trace the phenomenon's arc, Friedman NEW THIS SEASON Henrv Kass. (45th Street Theatre, 354 'W, COVER; becomes somewhat more circumspect. And the World Goes 'Round: The Songsof Kander 45th St. 564-8038.) ^I'noU "The clubs may have begun in the & Ebb—A musical revue with Bob Cuccioli, Mambo Mouth—John Leguizamo portrays sev Innis thirties, but they flourished primarily Karen Mason, Brenda Presslev, Jim Walton, en Hispanic characters in a one-man show, At Le Meridien doing businf.== • ^ '^I'AWingS: and Karen Ziemba. (Westside', 407 W. 43rd which was seen this spring at the American in the decade after the war, and pri Place Theatre. (Orpheum, 126 Second Ave., Booth, St. 307-4100.) easy by our enviably central Ir, George marily in Brooklyn, although I under Breaking Legs-The Mafia meets Off Broadway, at 8th St. 477-2477.) and consummately professi stand that the Bronx had them, too." rhitip Bosco and Vincent Gardenia can sel Miss Saigon—Oh, the horror! The horror! dom have been funnier than as a pair of (4/29/91) (Broadwav Theatre, Broadway at Forgetting business is simil°T And why were there none in Queens? mobsters who back a new play in order to S3rd St. 239-6200.) less thanks to amenities likp^ one wonders. "Apartments there were wm a young dramatist for Gardenia's daugh- Mr. Gogol and Mr. Preen—A new comedy by '^'"^'•les Barsotti, Richard Cline, Roz bigger—Queens was a place people Elaine May, with Zohra Lampert, William H. health facilities and award-win ii'.Vi-lillinger directedDulack it. wrote With the Larry comedv; Storch, John Vic Macy, and Mike Nussbaum. Directed by cuisine. Who says doing bii« moved to." tor Argo, Nicolas Surovy, and. aboveall. Sue Gregory Mosher. (Reviewed in this issue") OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Giosa as the daughter who spins the plot. (Mitzi E. Newhouse, Lincoln Center. 239- 6200.) be apleasure? For reseri?^^«^an't (Please call ihe phone number listed with the (Reviewed in our issue of 6/3/91.) (Prome NovaVelha Estoria—.A work performed bv the theatre for schedule and licket inlormalion.) nade, Broadway at 76th St. 580-1313.) Brazilian troupe Grupo de Te'atro (800)543.4300oryourt 20 West 4,1' YORKER Bergman On Stage—The Royal Dramatic The- Charge It, Please—A comedyby CarlosGorbea. And don't forget to ask abouf pf aire of Sweden pre.senls Ibsen s a dolls house, Three performances a week are in English; Macunaima. (Repertorio Espariol, Gramercv our frequent-guest progran, ^ street, new YORK, N.Y. 10036 with Erland Josephson. Directed by Ingmar lour are in Spanish. (Puerto Riean Traveling Arts Theatre, 138 E. 2 7th St. 889-285(3. Bergman. In Swedish, with simultaneous En- Theatre, 304 W. 47th St 354-1293. Closes Closes June 23.) (*) (212) 840-3800 gli.sh translation. Opens June 18 at 8, and Once on This Island—A musical by Lynn runs through June 20. (BAM s i\la]cstic The Ihe Complete Works of William Shakespeare Ahrens (book and lyrics) and Stephen Flaher atre, 651 Fulton St. 1-718 636-4100.) ( ) (Abridged)—A presentation bv Reed Martin, ty (score), which is based on Rosa Guv's 1985 To 'nqui novel, "Mv Love, Mv Love." (Booth," 222 'VV. Colo Circle Repertory Company—The final play ol Jess Borgeson, and Adam Long, three actors the season is the balcony scene, by Wil Cal- from L.A. known as the Reduced Shakespeare 45lh St. 239-6200.)" 'rad„Vo322'', -^^BJCRIPTION JERVICE Only the Truth Is Funny—The comedian Rick '^•pnono 1 80,: an athlrc.^s. please wnle i() x"f iNev% lorKcr. Jiox 56447, houn. With Jonathan Hogan,Cynthia Nixon, Companv. (Marvmount Manhattan Theatre, Reynolds' one-man show. (Westside, 407 W. ^ I'dlir ....i-sonV"''te""" " 56447, UiRil'''''"- and William Fichtner. Previews begin June 221 E. 71st St. 279-4200. Closes June 23.)( ) MEI^lfKi '"Ur Weeks' Coloratlo .?0.3 447-Q.-i30 >. Kor a change uf luhhi^ss. sul.srriiK'i'-^ 43fd St. 307-4100.) Encore!—A revue of songs from musicals that ij piL-asc send ihe a
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