I have a feeling that ALS may just be an inconvenient truth in this one -- one of those diseases known by its initials that sets the ticking clock to allow the play to come to an end.
“Variations” is about a woman who is in many ways the complete opposite of Ms. Fonda — someone who has shut down and is out of touch with herself. Ms. Fonda plays a character named Katherine Brandt, a musicologist who is suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, and is determined before she dies to solve the mystery of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations: why he spent the last years of his life obsessing over an ever-expanding set of variations on a waltz theme, written by the music publisher Anton Diabelli, that was clunky and banal.
It would be rather spectacular if Jane Fonda could get into the role enough get a case of ALS rage and help the cause.
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