N.B. I am posting this message on behalf of R. Kent Rasmussen. --Kevin B. ~~~ A quick note to report that Thursday night I attended IS HE DEAD? at New York's Lyceum Theatre with my son and stepdaughter. We all enjoyed the play immensely. As one who had read Mark Twain's original script with some care, I was skeptical that the play could be as good as many reviews claimed it was. Well, the reviews are right--the play is very entertaining and often hysterically funny. Credit goes to David Ives's brilliant adaptation of Mark Twain's script (which leaves much more of Mark Twain's original structure and scenes intact than I had expected) and to the uniformly superb cast, especially Norbert Leo Butz in the lead role. If you can enjoy melodramatic farce, I'm confident you would find it worth going out of your way to see to play while its original cast is in place. Special thanks must also go to Shelley Fisher Fishkin for saving this play from oblivion, for taking the initiative to get it produced on Broadway (who would have thought that possible?), and for helping to bring to the attention of the world another dimension of Mark Twain. Kent Rasmussen