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Harold Prince brings directorial savvy, and loads of heart, to the coming-of-age comedy Hollywood Arms; Jackie Mason is back and in top, zinger-ready form.

Movin' Out is such a muddle that it never makes the case for either Twyla Tharp or the Piano Man on Broadway. Amour's charms are limited; Al Pacino's histrionics in Arturo Ui aren't.

David Henry Hwang takes on Flower Drum Song, set in a San Francisco nightclub, but it's Rodgers and Hammerstein who'd be singing the blues; a play about the death penalty is -- exhilarating.

Roger Rees plays a bus driver in the musical version of A Man of No Importance, but the show is more earnest than Oscar.

In Israel Horovitz's new play, a beleaguered New Yorker meets his matches in the Paris apartment he's inherited; The World Over is by a playwright whose whimsy exceeds his grasp.

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
Harlem Song
Sondheim Celebration

Twelfth Night
I'm Not Rappaport
Sondheim Celebration

Pacific Overtures
Logic of the Birds

Sondheim Festival
Play Yourself

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