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That's By DENNIS R. SHEALY Carolina Life Editor When Town Theatre chose the Neil Simon comedy Broadway bound, to ciose 11s / isi season nere in Columbia they apparently knew they were making a wise choice. Though not without its problems this production is well done and very, very entertaining. Broadway Bound, a Tony and Outer Circle Award winner, is the the third play in a series of plays by Simon loosely based on his JH own life and early experiences. fl The other two plays Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues have also been extremely successful and critically acclaimed. As with the other two plays Broadway Bound revolves around the lives of Eugene Jerome and his family. In the play Eugene and his older brother Stan. Dlaved bv Da vid Davenport and August Krickel respectively, hope to escape the mKf nowhere jobs and dulldrums of their poor New York neighborhood by becoming comedy writers. Just as it seems as though their dream might come true when they get an audition as writers for a television show, they begin to realize that their father's extramarital affair and his ambitions for more out of life are wrecking the family's peace and unity. The brothers must face having to reconcile their own ambitions i a?: ? I;A? oiiu lvj a uiuuj' iug with their parents who have be- -p-,e ca come irreclaimablely separated. There is also a sort of subplot in f , which Eugene's grandfather Ben a refuses to go to Florida with his j?.01 ,^r' wife because he realizes his f ?n(la daughter is going to need him a er 1S when her husband eventually gets money the courage to leave. but he i Simon's play is not very meaty other da in terms of subject matter the someon* scenes between Ben and his The youngest daughter Blanche, played dances 1 by Nancy Piatt, and the dance calls th scene with Kate and Eugene are with a both filled with a real sense of tremely love and desperation. wonder Blanche tries to convince her possible : 'i1 i i i i r r1 r r [ r f r > I i i r1 r i i | r1 r r r ipwsss J- r r r rtr -r r f-?- rrrrrrrrr-rr rrrrr ivtif T f-r r r r r r r r r ITrfrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn VOLUNTEERS 1?? MAKE A HO iDtrrcRENCQ Comrmmtt* Cimsvii AetKrtttar *, S?tvlt? Ptootww c?nt?r. TI7-fflll ' Witf Command^ AM Performance j?* STYLING SALONS We ve got the style for you. 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June 13 JUNK MONKEYS Every Sunday FREE ACOUSTIC NIGKT Every Monday FREE OPEN BLUES AND JAZZ J) Come to the outside deck or the Purple where there's never a cover. linmen beauty in their lives. Town Theatre has man provide Columbia with a ful production of Broadway with a tight, passionate ar cast. However, this des< does not always hold true t out the play as they seeme very different chemistries if,, different members of the ca Si^avcnpun ^cciiicu vci; with Krickle but then wou k to come alive in scene Nancy Shane, who pl< Wk mother. Shane seemed equ mm inspired when speaking w Js! plan, but her scenes wit! If w Reed, who played her h w seemed like electricity jum] y0 tween the two performers. K H This odd sort of che m M seemed to exist for all th ^ bers of the cast in one wa; other, but Kaplan, Reed an gave consistently fine mances. Kaplan was esj funny as the Socialist grai H who wasn't as dim-witte< sometimes appeared to be. One other problem with was the ages of the actors pared to the characters th< ^ playing. Both Shane am L were apparently too yoi RP their roles while Piatt se little old to be Kate's > sister. Davenport is the least c ing of the actors and is s; H lead character. He. does gt as the play progresses. Over all, the production 11 . nni _ _i .? cenent. i ne ciotnes were r interesting para- ^ Qf ^ (jme and ^ lrawn between fecfly represented a low . , , family with a mother w lore excite y COntinually cleaning. The an e is y e house was sp^eiy furnis a television be- J hings that he is P^tually neaL villing to leave Simon's play doesn't le y for a woman with a lot to think about, -ne entertaining and leaves tl t women who g??? and a Utl nto themselves ^ and nostalgtc. world beyond Broadway Bound is pi . 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