All Right Now, Who Does Elliot Love?
From: Newsday Inc — Linda Winer At the start of “Elliot Loves,” the new Jules Feiffer-Mike Nichols collaboration that opened last night at the Promenade, Anthony Heald’s Elliot stands in a spotlight with hands in his pockets and tries to explain the complex riot of emotions he feels for a woman he has been dating “three months, four times a week.” His observations on queasy modern love are trenchant, stunted, ironic, irritable, adorable and as close to the bone as the best Feiffer has created for the stage. There’s enough material in this single monologue – enough warmth, humiliation and fresh insight – to make a harrowing and wonderful play. The heartbreak is that, somehow, that play never got written. This particular Elliot and the Joanna (Christine Baranski) he describes with such disarming ambivalence are reunited for a final gut-wrenching phone conversation that is worthy of these splendid actors and the monologue that introduced their characters. Between points A and C, however,
