Instead of finding witty theatrical and musical corollaries to Goldberg's fantastic contraptions, "Young Rube," a presentation of Musical Theater Works at St. Peter's Church, concentrates on the adolescent cartoonist's conflicts with his boorish father and his difficulties holding a job.

Finding theatrical corollaries for Mr. Garcia Marquez's static, time-warped dream world of ghosts, rain and memories isn't the easiest task facing a director.

Brilliant as it is, however, the disguise wouldn't count for much if Ms. Theron hadn't also dug deep into herself and found emotional corollaries to the desperate street person she was portraying.

This ambitious study of fame-mongering would like to think of itself as a descendant of "Sweet Smell of Success," but it fails to find contemporary corollaries to the earlier film's supercharged language and caffeine-fueled pace.

But as it dawdles along, it fails to find contemporary corollaries to the super-charged language and caffeine-fueled pace of that grimy 1957 masterpiece, which thrust a knife into the mystique of fame and gave it a savage twist.

He finds corollaries to such a practice in other ancient manuscripts.

Like "Dead End Kids," the Mabou Mines imaginative history of atomic energy, it finds all sorts of theatrical metaphors and cultural corollaries for the splitting of the atom, although "Atomic Opera" is campier and not as verbal.

Porter's elegant, waspish wit also finds several contemporary corollaries on the album.