PERSONALS
Mind you, Personals never gets oppressive. In fact, its dark undercurrent is often at odds with the show’s many bouncy, witty tunes. Written by a committee of three book writers and lyricists (David Crane, Seth Friedman, and Marta Kauffman) and six composers (William Dreskin, Joel Phillip Friedman, Seth Friedman, Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz, and Michael Skloff), Personals quickly casts off its implied theme–how newspaper personals influence love–in favor of the more universal topic of love, sweet and sour.
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The worst of the lot is “A Night Alone,” which tries to elicit sympathy for a lonely guy who can’t decide whether to watch TV or just mope around the apartment on a Saturday night. It was hard to repress the urge to stand up and shout, “Oh, grow up. Quit acting like a 15-year-old!”
