Objections? Well, there is the matter of their raising their bottles of Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, and St. John's Wort aloft in triumph as they sing, a la the Beach Boys, "I wish we could all be sane and normal girls." But I suppose that could be seen as eye-rolling acknowledgment more than giving in to the dark side.
Menopause Mama, the one-woman show created by Trinity's Rose Weaver 10 years ago, took on the subject with more depth. But Menopause The Musical doesn't trivialize the matter, despite trying to be as funny as possible. (At menopausethemusical.com — and to audiences in the lobby afterwards, they solicit donations for such campaigns as fighting ovarian cancer.) Like wise women, the show knows enough to not try to get around the problem — it takes us right through it.
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The Ogunquit Playhouse’s final show of the season is a musical for the ages — for the ages, that is, of about 45 to 60.
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Here's a hot flash for you: dying is easy (in the theatrical sense of bombing onstage); producing a successful show is hard.
- Worth remembering
In 1975, Dr. Kenneth Edelin was a household name in Boston.
- I've got you under my skin
The first rule for running a successful race for governor is never to say anything of substance about anything. Taking even the most innocuous of positions (Do you think Maine should have an official state skin disease?) will only cost a candidate votes.
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For the vast majority of Rhode Islanders — the insured — health-care is something you get when you need it. Feeling sick? Call the doctor. Slip and fall? Go to the emergency room or an urgent-care center. Need surgery? It's not fun, but it's covered.
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Finding a primary care doctor in Rhode Island may get harder. Faced with increasing workloads, some Rhode Island internists and family physicians are reducing their patient numbers.
- Controlling birth
Not surprisingly, I am searching for yet another birth control pill that doesn’t wreck my life.
- A bitter pill
In W’s world unaffordable birth control pills may become the “weapons of mass destruction” that we couldn’t find, until now.
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My story with the Pill begins at the vulnerable age of 18; I’ll begin at the point when I knew something was wrong.
- Quiet warfare
On September 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of the terror attacks that devastated our nation, a man crashed his car into a building in Davenport, Iowa, hoping to blow it up and kill himself in the fire.
- As goes Gloucester?
Waves of chatter wash over the city of Gloucester, where 17 high-school students are pregnant.
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