Word: alda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PUSSYCAT. Diana Sands and Alan Alda give top performances: Sands is a prostitute with a tongue of brass who moves in on a bookish clerk (Alda) in Bill Manhoffs flip and funny version of the contemporary form of the mating dance...
...just as much her forte. Or, in this case, fortissimo--for she bulldozes her way right through the show with an incredible display of dynamic vigor and histrionic virtuosity. She can take a run-of-the-mill phrase or line and make you double over. What a gall Alan Alda makes up the rest of this tandem tantrum...
...Broadway THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, by Bill Manhoff, is as timeless as a Punch-and-Judy show and as timely as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Diana Sands, as a sexy pussycat who claws, and Alan Alda, as a bookish owl who screeches, fill the evening with good, vulgar, neurotic laughter...
...revolutionary mentality. As Bitos-Robespierre, Donald Pleasence is phenomenally good THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, by Bill Manhoff, is as timeless as a Punch-and-Judy show and as timely as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Diana Sands as a sexy pussycat who claws and Alan Alda as a bookish owl who screeches, fill the evening with good, vulgar, neurotic laughter...
Anything short of tiptop performances might have been the ruination of the play. Diana Sands is a fiery, sexy shrew who puts plenty of lip on her English. Arms akimbo and eyes aglaze, Alan Alda flaps haplessly after every disaster like a commuter ignored at a bus stop. Director Arthur Storch keeps Pussycat yowling along, and if Playwright Manhoff does some comic counterfeiting, he also mints plenty of sound money lines ("I happen to be an intellectual. That means that I am not at the mercy of what I want...