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Thymus Vulgaris, The Lady or the Tiger and Corner, 28th and Bank...
Thymis Vulgaris, The Lady or the Tiger and Comar, 28th and Bank--Hasty Pudding Theater...
Just 90 seconds before, Yale seemed on its way to its ninth straight victory. Princeton was caught on its own 24-yard line with fourth down and ten yards to go, but Holly threw into a crowd and Tiger receiver Steve Oostdyk came down with the ball to give the Tigers a first down, keeping alive the drive that led to the winning touchdown...
THINGS BRIGHTEN CONSIDERABLY, but not enough to compensate, in the third play, The Lady or the Tiger by cartoonist Shel Silverstein. This is a neat sketch about a murderously overblown T.V. game show that climaxes in the Astrodome with the contestant, dressed as a gladiator, getting either the girl of his dreams and $12 million or a man-eating tiger ("flown in by Air India") and certain death. It's set in the office of the brash young producer, who faces, in turn, a huge black tiger-tamer in safari costume; the awkwardly toupeed M.C. rehearsing the moment when...
...opening, with the producer playing tiger and thrashing on the floor with his tamer is deliriously silly and crazy, and it's a pity the play is never quite as insane when the audience becomes oriented. Silverstein has written some riotous speeches here, the characters are gems, and now and then a line will be both starkly funny and horrible--as when the producer says to the Lord in mock prayer with the shivering contestant that maybe this poor, white-trash hick has only a 50-per-cent chance of survival and happiness, "but Lord, that 50 per cent chance...