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Article: They're tossing everything but bouquets at `Ubu Rock'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 30, 1995
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Theater programs usually fly first. Then a paper plane or piece
of fruit strikes somewhere (or someone) on the ART stage.
Occasionally, audience members spray "Ubu Rock" cast members with
water. At most performances, they just throw empty soda bottles. Or
underwear. Or shoes.
The 1896 premiere performance of Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" incited
an audience riot. "Ubu Rock," the ART's musical updating of Jarry's
anarchic play, has yet to provoke pandemonium. But it does have
audiences acting out -- not at its loathsome characters, its obscene
language or its apocalyptic vision. But at a very silly song.
General Lasky, the decrepit, one-eyed, one-legged leader of a
Polish infantry that's about ...