There male and female desperados gyrate. A smiling, knowing bartender, acted with insinuating and uneasy charm by Jason Antoon, encourages Gaines to get in the mood. She creates there a sexy, witty danse noire . It is still the most exciting sequence in town, joining what's living in the Broadway idiom to what's vivid in dance, both of which Stroman is master. She goes through one guy after another with a drop-dead decisiveness that seems to have some standard in mind.
Gaines queries the bartender.
And is he right. Stroman, as I've said, is our best. She smiles, warmly. The bar has become a utopia. Of the other two segments, the first remains an amusing curtain raiser.