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Last Dance
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 3, 2003
Closed Jul 6, 2003

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http://www.manhattantheatreclub.org

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Manhattan Theatre Club presents the world premiere of Last Dance. Charlotte, an American poet, is living elegantly in the south of France, surrounded by love, poetry, and flowers. She just wants to indulge herself in all that life has to offer. If only there weren't so many hangers-on who want her attention. Marsha Norman' s new play is directed by Lynne Meadow and includes orginal music by Jason Robert Brown.

Week of July 4:
Regular schedule

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



New York City Center - Stage II
131 W 55th St
New York, NY 10019


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Charlotte, the focal character of Marsha Norman's shockingly deficient Last Dance, wants to be alone -- as did Greta Garbo with such notoriety. Garbo apologists have always maintained, of course, that the Swedish star's actual request was to be left alone, which is not exactly the same thing. Well, Charlotte (JoBeth Williams) wants that, too. And the tactics that the Savannah expatriate novelist and sometime poet employs to get what she wants are what fill the oh-so-long 90 minutes that the piece takes to unravel -- er, to unfold.

Over the course of one sunny summer day at Charlotte's villa in the south of France, she decides that Cabot Gray (Lorenzo Pisoni), an aspiring young poet with [...]


Reviewed by David Finkle on Jun 4, 2003

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