it was better when there were only three channels of television and movies were events and all the media was controlled by and created for white men. Which is a particularly ironic position for the openly gay Christopher Durang to take, but in a play with an actual Magic Negro (nope, still not kidding) I suppose I shouldn't expect self-awareness of any kind.

Argh, seriously? And the audience is meant to take it at face value? I guess I no longer need to feel bad about missing it on Broadway. Dammit. It had such a great-looking cast.

(I want to ask what it would take for Theatre@First to put up Breaking the Code, but I don't know if it's possible to direct enough against the text to salvage the character of Pat Green, who remains my one screaming argument with the play. Rant here.)