This comedy, written and directed by Andrew Bergman, wears its zaniness on its sleeve.

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And the screenwriters, Andrew Bergman and Robert Harling, wring fun out of fustian and keep the shallow characters on the run.

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Besides the revival and film of "The Last Five Years, " he's got two new musicals debuting this year: "Honeymoon in Vegas, " an adaptation of the 1992 film written with Andrew Bergman that will premiere at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, and "The Bridges of Madison County, " a musical he wrote with Marsha Norman that debuts at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts this summer.

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