Under the ‘Rainbow’

In reviewing “James Joyce’s The Dead” (“Bravely Breaking the Rules,” July 21), Michael Phillips credits it with “stubborn integrity” and “honorable craft,” but there was no integrity nor honor in Ahmanson management’s bringing in this stinker to replace the unavailable “Finian’s Rainbow” after Broadway observers indicated it could not find a popular audience. He claims it “had its admirers,” but neither one was present the night we joined so many others in walking out in disgust.

WAYNE C. IRWIN

Northridge

What were the powers that be thinking when they brought this small, very minimal piece to the large, cold Ahmanson Theatre? If this play belongs anywhere, and in my opinion it doesn’t, it’s in a small, intimate venue.

MIRIAM SCHNEIDER

Valley Village

Note to the Ahmanson: Please bring back “The Scarlet Pimpernel.” M. BAKER

Whittier