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| | Under the Bridge: review on TheaterMania.com |
 | | In adapting Natalie Savage Carlson's book The Family Under the Bridge (which I haven't read and am now not eager to crack open), Gifford obviously thinks she's writing a tuner about family values by melding The Madwoman of Chaillot, which Jerry Herman turned into the inadequate Dear World, with the Walter Marks flop Bajour. |
 | | The issue of family is, of course, pressing and significant; if love and care are defining elements, then when a group of people exhibiting these traits bands together, they should have the right to call themselves a family. |
 | | Under Eric Schaeffer's so-so direction (does he really believe in this tale?), Ed Dixon puts on sometimes appealing Maurice Chevalier-like airs as Armand, Jacquelyn Piro thaws out nicely as mama Calcet, and Florence Lacey is vigorous as the caring gypsy. |
| www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/5502 (863 words) |
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