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Free to Be...You and Me
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 13, 2002
Closed Jun 30, 2002

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http://www.DramaDept.org

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Douglas Carter Beane directs this Drama Dept. live performance of the classic album, Free to Be...You and Me. This groundbreaking musical features music and lyrics by Marlo Thomas, Peter Stone, Carl Reiner, Carol Hall, Sheldon Harnick and Shel Silverstien among others. Highlights include the title song and "Glad to Have a Friend Like You." The cast includes Robert Ari, Debbie Gravitte, Keith Nobbs, and Daphne Rubin-Vega.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Greenwich House Theatre
27 Barrow St
New York, NY 10014


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The ellipsis that Marlo Thomas and those who helped create Free to Be...You and Me placed in the title has always seemed curious. What is meant to be implied by those three dots? Since an ellipsis usually indicates a deletion, was there something cut? Or does it imply a pause, during which the title's speaker is trying to think what to say next? Who knows? Probably, it's no more than an affectation, but somehow that concluding "you and me" suggests a speaker settling for less than he or she started out to claim. You know, free to be...oh, well, just you and me.

Settling, of course, is not what Thomas and colleagues intended when the book, album, and 1972 television special incarnatio[...]


Reviewed by David Finkle on Jun 14, 2002

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