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Article: Wings. (Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York, New York)
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- Commonweal
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- April 9, 1993
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I went to Wings at the Joseph Papp Public Theater with more curiosity than anticipation. It had been enthusiastically received at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and it carried its reputation with it to New York. Still, I am suspicious of musical adaptations of straight plays, particularly of plays that I admire as much as I do Arthur Kopit's original Wings. It is difficult to realize that it has been almost fifteen years since Wings first played in New York because the play and Constance Cummings's luminous performance as Emily Stilson are still vivid in my mind. (I hate critics who describe performances as luminous, but Cummings's really was.) I did not want music to ...
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