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Prototype Festival: What To Wear. Richard Foreman's opera on beauty and ducks.

by Jonathan Mandell

Why do the four opera singers repeat "This is Mad'line X" forty-one times?  What's with the big ducks and why are they playing golf? Is the ensemble a group of courtiers or a deck of cards? Why are these bedazzling and bewildering sixty minutes entitled "What To Wear"?  For answers, I turned to Richard Foreman,...

SOURCE: New York Theater at 7:50pm on January 17, 2026