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What I liked

The actors were professional, committed, and likeable.

What I didn't like

It might’ve worked better to’ve cast the actors on the young side of the characters’ age ranges. As it was, they were faded, tidily sit-com versions of the boys whom the play asks us to believe were inextricably linked through so many decades.

My overall impression

Respectable, generic gay version of “Same Time Next Year.” An affair over the decades, without the kind of real sexual (or sexual-and-romantic) heat that would have made it compelling. Chemistry in a piece like this is everything, and, while the actors were respectable, the relationship remained tame, and the overview of gay life yielded no fresh insights about AIDS angsts, the closet, yearnings for unavailable bad-boys and fear of intimacy psycho-babble, etc.