The production looks wonderful with Roger Hanna’s remarkably detailed sets for such a small space switching from the girls’ apartment to the one the boys share. Brenda Turpin does fine costume work, as does Stephen Petrilli with lighting. Jane Shaw’s sound design effectively mimics the sound of Manhattan’s streets.
Williford’s direction emphasizes the earnest excitement of seeing New York through youthful, newly independent eyes. Nearly 75 years after Dawn Powell finished this play, New York remains the place where people run off to find love and adventure and to get caught in its fascinating rhythm.
Source: broadwayworld.com
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Bollywood is finally serenading the older couple. But have societal yardsticks changed? "Yes, we've come a long way from where we were," says novelist Shobhaa De. "Today, it's okay for a woman or man in her/his 40s or even 60s to seek happiness. Everybody deserves a second and even third chance at love and, finally, society has come to accept this. For Bollywood to be showing this shows the coming of age of Bollywood."
Ad man Alyque Padamsee believes that Bollywood follows societal trends. "Age was always a fixation, but just as we have got rid of many other fixations,
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