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...Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit. An unevenly funny surrealistic foray into the no man's land of Momism. Nymphet Barbara Harris makes the scene, the play, and the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 23, 1962 | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...Night. Marriage without love and life without meaning are examined with talent, intelligence and despair by Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura), whose text might be from W. H. Auden: "The glacier knocks in the closet,/ The desert sighs in the bed;/ The crack in the teacup opens/ A lane to the land of the dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 23, 1962 | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...enter the theatre you are handed a program that, when unfolded, is exactly thirty-four inches wide. That's to accommodate the title: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad. Yes, the smash hit of the Cambridge season two years ago, by Arthur L. Kopit '59, has at last, by way of London, reached the New York boards, where it opened not so many days...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Oh Dad, Poor Dad,' etc. | 3/21/1962 | See Source »

...monumental styganoric narrative. And what she does with the simple epithet "slut" has to be heard to be believed. In all, an impressive performance. Opposite her, Sandor Szabo does admirably in the largely passive role of the Commodore who is a potential successor to dad-in-the-closet...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Oh Dad, Poor Dad,' etc. | 3/21/1962 | See Source »

William and Jean Eckart designed the extremely handsome settings. Since the cast includes three Rosepettles, Commodore Rosabove, Rosalie, and Rosalinda the fish--and, for all I know, Jonathan may be keeping a "Rosebud" sled in his closet--it is no surprise that the chief color of the decor (and of some of the costumes) is rose, with which two pieces of orange-upholstered furniture are delightfully inharmonious. And Thomas Skelton's lighting, properly non-realistic, is stunning...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Oh Dad, Poor Dad,' etc. | 3/21/1962 | See Source »

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