Mix the wistful, slightly sentimental humor of William Saroyan and the abrasive machine-gun ribaldry of Lenny Bruce. Add to that a mental image of Holden Caulfield as a 30-year-old dropout, and you have the basic tone and temper of Terrence McNally's Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?
Tommy, played with intense virtuosity by Robert Drivas, isn't going anywhere. He grew up in St. Petersburg, Fla., but views that town, and his family, as a deadly bog. He has become an asphalt urchin of Manhattan, where he cunningly cadges an existence off the body of a society that he believes is sick, bloated and...
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