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Lempicka the woman was unquestionably fascinating, flawed, and fabulous;Lempickathe musical often goes flat.
The show pushes and poses it doesnt let us in.
Plane, lines, form, sings Lempicka (Eden Espinosa) in a repeating motif throughout the show.
Plane, color, light.
Its fleeting, though.
Have you ever loved someone, more than life itself?
The painter, age 77, asks us at the start of the show.
Politics will swirl violentlyaroundLempicka, but this story will be about love.
Samonskys Tadeusz cant compete.
Abuds Mephistophelean Marinetti quickly becomesperhaps a bit too transparently in terms of the scriptthe Che to Lempickas Evita.
A painting is a flat surface, covered with paint … We do not control the world.
We control one flat rectangle of canvas.
Who can show me / Something Ive neverseen?
growls Marinetti.Lempickaaspires, even strains, but never quite generates wonder.
Artespecially art explicitly about artisnt easy.
Lempickais at the Longacre Theatre.
