Guest star Richard Kind as it turns out is Streisand's step cousin, here playing an old classmate of Fran's who had a crush on her even though she rejected him in high school. Ironically, she has given Brighton a hard time for turning down his class geek (Bonnie Morgan) for a school dance so it's an interesting analogy of right and wrong and hypocrisy. We learn more about Maxwell's rivalry with Andrew Lloyd Webber thanks to a slam to the musical "Cats". A funny minor subplot has Maggie crushing on her ballet teacher whom Fran has to explain the truth about. That's veteran actor Jay Robinson ("The Robe") as the prissy matre d.
Review of The Playwright
