“Several other outcasts of the Soviet period—White Russians, ideologically suspect intellectuals, descendants of czarist royalty—have at last found their place, posthumously, in a new Russia. Buried with General Denikin last week was Ivan Ilyin, a philosopher who was expelled by the Bolshevik dictatorship in 1922 aboard what came to be known as the ‘philosophers' ship.’”
“Hunt's snazzy bit as a booze-sodden, grade-C actress wins the first deep-seated belly laugh of the production. And while the show yields other pleasures, you wish there were more as delicious as Hunt's turn—and that of another boisterous scene-stealer, Frank Corrado, who plays a zealous White Russian balletmaster with a penchant for the phrase: 'It stinks!’”
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