L.O.V.E.R.
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Cititour.com Review
The title of Lois Robbins’ solo show “L.O.V.E.R.” is both what you think it is – and not exactly that. This 75-minute, quasi-autobiographical exploration of the actress’ life and journey towards self-fulfillment is admittedly obsessed with her many male paramours, but the word is also (as the periods indicate) an acronym that has two very different meanings during Robbins’ life – and by extension, the lives of most women.
Indeed, Robbins does a fair amount of kissing-and-telling in the show (although all the names have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent), but her overall aim is to be an inspiration for other ladies in the audience. She deftly lets them know that they too can move on from being an hypersexualized child to a young woman unsure how to deal with men in general, and specifically a controlling if loving father, to a sex-crazed, aspiring actress with terrible taste in men.
Finally, and thankfully, she becomes a grown woman who finds real contentment in being a wife and mother. (Full disclosure, though, she doesn’t let us in the fact that marrying one of the world’s richest men probably made this last part just a little bit easier.)
There’s both plenty of humor and sorrow in her long and winding road, and Robbins is an extremely engaging storyteller. Moving swiftly around Jo Winiarksi’s all-white, multi-level set, and kept in almost constant motion by the gifted director Karen Carpenter, Robbins projects a combination of likability and vulnerability that goes a long way to capturing our attention.
Unsurprisingly, Robbins barely focuses on her career, which was never all that successful -- her greatest fame may have come from appearing on four different ABC soap operas in the 1980s and 1990s -- and she offers little insight into acting or the world around it. And while she’s not the most skilled mimic -- her few lapses into the voices of other people, including her parents and her best friends are pretty superficial – that barely matters.
What does matter is that you may emerge with a life lesson learned -- or maybe just feeling better about yourself.
By Brian Scott Lipton
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https://www.lovertheplay.com/
Cast
Lois Robbins
Open/Close Dates
Opening 9/8/2019
Closing 11/2/2019
Theatre Info
Pershing Square Signature Center
480 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
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