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[THEATER REVIEW] The Front Page at WTF
7.9.07
This 'Front Page' is a bit too wordy
By Sandy MacDonald, Globe Correspondent
It's always a challenge, resurrecting a classic play that has become far better known as a film. In taking up Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's 1928 comedy "The Front Page," the Williamstown Theatre Festival has set itself the perhaps insuperable task of eclipsing "My Girl Friday," the delightful 1940 adaptation starring Rosalind Russell as headline-hungry Chicago reporter "Hildy" Johnson and Cary Grant as her relentless taskmaster of a boss.
WTF's production is fairly faithful to the original. Genders stay put -- the film had changed Hildy's role to a woman's -- and cuts are minimal: The play still runs nearly three hours, and most of its pre-PC racist epithets and misogynistic elements remain intact. This is not so sacrosanct a script, however, that a bit more snipping and sidestepping would have seemed amiss. In fact, so familiar by now are the poker-playing, repartee-slinging conventions of the typical bullpen press room -- thanks, no doubt, to the period movies that "The Front Page" inspired -- that we don't even really need the gradual, atmospheric set-up established in Act One.
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