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CACTUS FLOWER. France is fertile soil for sex farces, and Director Abe Burrows has deftly pruned this recent sprout to make it thrive in the Broadway landscape. Lauren Bacall and Barry Nelson reap a rich harvest of giggles and guffaws...
...this understandably led Abe Ribicoff to make the understatement that, "there's too much snooping going on." To Nader the Senator observed: "You can feel pretty proud. They have put you through the mill and they haven't found a damn thing wrong with...
CACTUS FLOWER is a French farce adapted to U.S. tastes by Director Abe Burrows. Handling dialogue like a bone-dry martini, Nurse Lauren Bacall is all efficiency in the office but predictably cuts loose on the dance floor, with some torso twisting that causes Dentist Barry Nelson to drop his dentures...
Next season Merrick intends to give theatergoers plenty to think about: 1) a new play by Peter Weiss (Marat/Sade); 2) a musical based on Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, written and directed by Abe Burrows; 3) a musical based on The Fourposter starring Mary Martin and directed by Gower Champion; 4) a new comedy by Bill Manhoff (The Owl and the Pussycat): 5) a new play by Brian Friel (Philadelphia, Here I Come!); 6) Hugh Wheeler's dramatization of the Shirley Jackson novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle; 7) a play by Cartoonist Mell Lazarus...
...President has also surprised reporters by announcing decisions and appointments which he had disclaimed the day before. Last summer he announced Abe Fortas's appointment to the Supreme Court only a day after he had told reporters that he had not even begun to consider a successor to Justice Goldberg. An alarming "credibility gap" has arisen: The President and his staff often cannot bring themselves to reply "no comment" when it is clearly appropriate...