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Matty, An evening with Christy Mathieson
MATTY. In recent years a number of
little known
performers have successfully created one-person memory plays to showcase their talents (i.e.
Bronx Tales and Family Business). Here Eddie Frierson, takes
his turn at this genre through the
story of the dominant pitcher during the first two decades of the 1900's and one of the first five
players elected to the Hall of Fame in 1936. Frierson is a versatile actor with enormous physical
grace. Maybe you don't have to be a baseball buff to really enjoy this but if the questions and
answers Frierson fielded at the end of the performance we attended were strictly about
the great American pasttime and not the play per se--possibly because it sorely lacks
incisive language or wit and leans too heavily on repetitive platitudes. Lamb's Downstairs Stage,
130 W. 44th St. (239-6200). Closed December 1, 1996.
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