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...presents a stereotypical version of the key signers of the Declaration of Independence and their sometimes abrasive, sometimes soporific deliberations at the Second Continental Congress. The musical succeeds only in bringing the heroic, tempestuous birth of a people and a polity down to a feeble vaudevillian jape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 25, 1969 | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...presents a stereotypical version of the key signers of the Declaration of Independence and their sometimes abrasive, sometimes soporific deliberations at the Second Continental Congress. The musical succeeds only in bringing the heroic, tempestuous birth of a people and a polity down to a feeble vaudevillian jape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Apr. 18, 1969 | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...golden brood of 18th century Enlightenment. To the nation, which was a gleam of courage in their fertile imagination, they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. On Broadway, 1776 brings the heroic, tempestuous birth of a people and a polity down to a feeble vaudevillian jape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Birth of a Jape | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...vagabond. Known only as Alan, he sleeps on strange streets and familiar beds, wandering from woman to woman, ending all his relationships with an easygoing "Ciao, baby." Except for that, he has little to say, and less to laugh about. His idea of humor is to retell the ancient jape of the man who asked his mistress, "Do you smoke after?", and received the answer, "I don't know. I'll look next time." Alan, whose ordinariness is well portrayed by Off-Broadway Veteran John Tracy, meanders from Manhattan's Lincoln Center at the beginning to Long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Celebrations of the Ordinary | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

Never mind the metaphysics. In exactly 20 words: No one who reads this jape will ever again feel quite comfortable reading the traditional Snow White to his children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Come Back, Brothers Grimm | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

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