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Stage Whisperer: Ariana DeBose’s Tonys Hat Trick
This week in theater news: Ariana will host the Tonys, Lempicka is giving Repo! The Generic Opera, and Bronies are an untapped Broadway audience.
On Monday night, I got a brief glimpse at another big mysterious event coming toward us in June: the ballroom-inspired revival of Cats, directed by Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch. With the five indelible sisters at its center and its elegant interweaving of Friel’s deep preoccupations — memory; loss of home and innocence; Ireland’s inextricable knot of relationships with its own history, obsolescence, and progress — Lughnasa is a perennial favorite for revival. Walter Kerr called it a “warming fire” — “funny,” “prickly,” and “most affecting.” Stanley Kauffman found it naïve, a play of “considerable pleasantness, little poetry and insufficient power.”
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