Fittingly, Mourning's 3-point play wrapped up the scoring.
Once the plot is fully revealed, "Flyovers" is a thinner play, wrapping up in predictable rather than inevitable ways.
It's a joy to watch characters from the earlier assignments come back into play, wrapping up loose ends and bringing Givens and Jackie Nevada together with an unexpected and beautifully minimalist tenderness amid all the blood and killing.
They're upstaged by their own visuals – Perfect Couple's entrancing modern dance film, for example – and Murdoch's absorbing persona: he shuns crowd suggestions of running for parliament because "they'd have to give me a fishing boat full of cocaine to get me through a parliamentary year" and admits they have to give the Shadows £50 whenever they play Wrapped Up in Books.
(022, white, gay, male, 40s) From a gay's perspective, we know generally, you know, when I don't ask or they don't ask, it's a given we're both HIV and we're going to have probably unprotected sex … If he says, I'll only play wrapped, then I will respect that and play wrapped.
Why did Williams keep the play under wraps?
The play, which wraps up a sold-out production on Saturday at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., received mixed-to-favorable reviews there; the notices for Mr. Cranston's performance were strong, and producers are counting on his star power to drive ticket sales in the move to Broadway.
His audiences always knew how a play would wrap up, and they did not enjoy themselves any less.
The Cardinals, one and a half games ahead with three to play, can wrap up the division by beating the Brewers today and tomorrow, or with one victory and a Houston loss.
It marries folk and rock and blues and jazz and gospel, flute, harpsichord, vibraphone – to create these eight songs that don't so much play as wrap themselves around your legs, that get stuck beneath your fingernails.
