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Opening Date: Mar 24, 2006; Lead Performances: Lauren Ambrose, Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Wanamaker; Writer: Clifford Odets; Director: Bartlett Sher
Has a 71-year-old play ever felt more alive? Clifford Odets' exultant drama, Awake and Sing!, a Bronx-set story of a Jewish family embroiled in ''a struggle for life amidst petty conditions,'' returns to the jewel-box-like Belasco where it premiered in 1935 in a revelatory revival. The fierce, fiery ensemble includes Mark Ruffalo (as a heartsick, wooden-legged hoodlum), Lauren Ambrose (a love-starved shotgun bride), and Zoƫ Wanamaker (a shrewd, steely matriarch), but the real stars are Odets and his sublimely structured play, an unabashedly idealistic, chest-thumping rabble-rouser. Finally, a show worth singing about. (212-239-6200)
Posted Apr 21, 2006
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