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1 B3 '60i nnutlon Lesley Gora In So Many Ways a Lesley Gore The singer My Party" Turn to headlines an evening of "Music with cuter i 6 Memories' with other nostalgia groups tomorrow night at 7 at St John the Baptist The TOWN AHtOUKTRY (IQ Three years in the nuking this star-stud dsd comedy about a ph Pandering architect (Warren Beatty) and the women In his Ufa limps to the finish fine stiH hi dire need of structural reinforcement Funny hi parts but afi told Its a styfish muddle With Garry Shandllng Diane Keaton Goldie Hewn Andie MacDowell Charlton Heston Jenna Elfman and Nastassja Kinski Written by Michael LaughNn and Buck Henry Directed by Pelar Chebom 1:40 Language sexual stations At area theaters ater Montauk Highway West Iriip Tickets axefSS call 631-687-3565 'Love AR two-character play i an outing in Greenport night and tomorrow at 8 Sunday nport Meth- at 2 pm at the Greenport By Gene Seymour STAvrwmxR odist Church Main Street Tickets are $12 including a dessert buffet seniors are $10 Sunday Call 631-477-2549 Diana Firagold and Bnca Bloom star in Latte ri" WHENEVER A movie opens with as much bad jiyu as "Town and has collected through three years of production woes always tempting to look for cracks leaks and sags You strain to'find them though you wish you could somehow ignore mem This movie waa supposed to have been released at least a century ago But its arrival has been postponed by delays attributed to script revi- Gany Shandllng and Warran Butty star in "Town Country" a comedy of i la by the metric ton egos on bad planetary alignments what- from any angle you find and it will still come across as the mess that everyone expected a handsome occasionally funny mess but still a mess What this all the more painful to report is that possible ever Who even knows whether be able to see it today? Someone may yet decide to yank it back before the first reel Which may not be a bad thing You can cut "Town and as much alack as you want view it See TOWN on B6 Denmark This Tom Sawyer Is for the Kids Despite the billing not one size fits all pedally Rosencrantz and Guilden-stam are played by the same two swing actors (Naseniddin Shah and Rohan Siva) Most important is our prince Adrian Lester the remark Jamaican talent in short wormy antic intelli- dreadlocks and i gence This is no mad'ftamlet but a clever follow with a cunningly nutty sense of inappropriate behavior that ware the truth out of i just could i TK ADVEKTURES OF TOM SAWYER Book by Kan Ludwig music and lyrics by Don Schlitz directed by Scott Blit Sate by Hsidi EtOngsr costumes by Anthony PoweU fights by Kenneth Posner choreography by David Marques music direction by Paul GemignanL Minskoff Theatre 45th Street west of Broadway Seen at Sunday's preview one Brook and Lester dare us to 1 annoyed at times with fast-talking self-slapping cartwheeling lithe convulsing There is method to this madness however and the result feels both contrived and raw immediate and unforgettable The ghost is so much flesh that Hamlet can hug him- The women By Linda Winer STATT WHITES Jim PobIds left is Huckleberry Finn wtiila Joshua Park plays thi Utls rats In "Tha Adventures at Tam are of so little import we can hardly Brook want us recall them humming the greatest hits which means that Polonius rive advice to his son Laertes his son even appear until the end the players speak ancient Greek "to be or not to is in a new place Unlike and the ending well Hmtar AatoAii Mint! celebrated reduction of "Car restless adult attention span and the cries of one terrified tot during a scary knife scene at last preview however guessing MOMENTS into "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" the bright and tidy coun-I 1 try-flavored musical that JlU opened last night at the Minskoff Theatre we suddenly find ourselves aligned with advocates of entertainment rating systems Not for the children For us In the new kid-friendly Broadway how can innocent theatergoers know that is best endured with a 7-year-old but that "The lion is a hot ticket for all desirable demographics? Understandably the accomplished creators of Tom are claiming that their adaptation of Mark 1876 coming-of-age classic is one of those one-size-fits-all-American commodities Based on scientific data from one i'1 which we found a disservice to the original this does its sculpting from the inside Brook says theater can fill a "hun that Tom Sawyer" will be a simple ideas harmless except to modem about pleasure for chil Joshua Park who plays Tom has the nonthreatening charisma that turns curly-haired lanky young men into pop heartthrobs It hurt that he first appears from the onstage swim hole in bare chest and leather suspenders Nor does it hurt that Park in his Broadway debut is a big talent who lings Don deceptively simple country-western arid soft pop songs with forthright assurance and wears the ger that nothing else in society can When asked what he means dren old enough to follow an adven-ry and not turn story and not too old to the missing dark edges Even more we suspect this could be a special show for prepubescent girls you know 'tween with amide curiosity and discretionary income he once told me you know what I mean which case you know I cannot tell you Or you know what I mean and there is no way of describing Twenty-dollar seats on floor cushions have just i on sale worth suffering for sart See TOM on B18.