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| | Whizbang revival of Stoppard play |
 | | As a result, the crisp, crackling, whizbang revival of Tom Stoppards Jumpers at the Brooks Atkinson will be closing a month and half early (on July 11) because the show, nominated for four Tony Awards (Best Revival, Best Direction, Best Actor, Best Actress), did not come away with a single one. |
 | | It was 1971 and Stoppard was 33 or 34 when he wrote this dazzling play, his brain cells set agog by the life, thought, and works of Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), English philosopher, mathematician, and ageless lothario. |
 | | Tom Stoppard, onetime cub reporter, later third-string drama critic on the Bristol-based Western Daily Press, says with a smile: That was exactly my train. And then rips downstairs and out onto the sidewalk of 42nd Street to light and draw deeply on the cigarette hes been craving since and before God entered the conversation. |
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