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Thoroughly Upbeat Mayer

It is the morning after opening night, and somehow, Michael Mayer is chipper. His production of Arthur Miller's "After the Fall," about the playwright and his second wife, Marilyn Monroe, was savaged in The New York Times this morning.

Some might have ducked out on a pre-scheduled interview, pleaded nolo contendere or a stomach virus. But Mayer is there -- or at least at the other end of the phone.

He hasn't read the review, though he knows the gist of it, mostly because of the silence. "It's uncomfortable when the phone doesn't ring," he says. "When you get good reviews, the phone rings all the time."

And he has gotten plenty of them, for productions ranging from "Thoroughly Modern Millie" ...

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