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Article: Theater; Giddy for `Godot'
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- The Washington Post
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- November 7, 1988
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Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" has such a towering
reputation for metaphysical bleakness that one can easily forget how
rambunctiously funny the work is, as it goes about painting its
characters into a forgotten corner of the cosmos.
Put Robin Williams and Steve Martin in the lead roles, however,
and you have quite the opposite problem. In the eruption of antics
by two of America's most popular (and idiosyncratic) comics, it is
entirely possible to overlook the metaphysical bleakness.
Tickets for the limited engagement of "Godot," which opened last
night at Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre here, have long since been snapped
up. Few, if any, productions of Beckett's plays have boasted ...