![]() ![]() Like his bratty kid brother, Steve (Eric Gurry), Paul plays hooky from school, to the distress of their mother, Enid Pollack (Beatrice Arthur).Įconomic necessity, grudging tolerance, and a kind of shared desperation appear to be the principal forces holding the Pollack family together. While Paul dreams of being a magician and constantly practices his craft, the bright but stuttering youth dreads the thought of public performance. As the play opens, teen-age Paul Pollack (Brian Backer) is performing this particular sleight-of-hand feat in the narrow little bedroom at the left of the drab Canarsie apartment setting designed by Santo Loquasto. The symbolic light bulb of the title comes straight from one of the more luminous manipulations in the magicians's bag of tricks. Under the quickening direction of Ulu Grosbard, a strong cast realizes the heartbreak as well as the humor and humanity of Woody Allen's latest work about the hope and despair of illusion. ![]() "The Floating Light Bulb," at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, is a sad-funny play, a wistful but gritty comedy about the hopes and dreams that somehow sustain a household of contentious Brooklynites back in 1945. ![]() The Floating Light Bulb, Starring Beatrice Arthur, Jack Weston, Danny Aiello. ![]()
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