TITLE: PRELUDE TO A KISS
DIRECTOR: NORMAN RENE
WRITER: CRAIG LUCAS
THE BOTTOM LINE: This adaptation of a Broadway hit is a heartbreaking fable of love and loss -- and love triumphant.
Will you still love me, darling, when I'm old and gray?
Of course, my forever.
Really? Then watch this.
(Poof! The beloved is old and gray.)
Fairy tales are for children; adults usually have to settle for metaphors. But Craig Lucas knows that for grownups a fable can have the impact of a first kiss -- every bit as beautiful, seductive, haunting.
The works of this wonderful writer (the...