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...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...
...pussycat (Diana Sands) is a hellcat, a down-to-dirt prostitute with a tongue of brass. The owl (Alan Alda) is more of a penguin with a hotfoot, a bookstore clerk whose bookish dignity is destined to be bruised beyond repair. As figments of their own imaginations, they conceive of themselves, respectively, as a model and a writer...
With the loneliness of a long-distance voyeur, Alda has been spying on Sands's pay-and-playtimes through binoculars. His priggish rectitude makes him inform her landlord. Thrown out of her apartment (the setting is San Francisco), she storms into his. After that, they fight, kiss, fight, split up, fight, make up, and fight. The stage, like the plot, might seem bare except that each lover introduces the other to a secret love. He is seduced by his body, she is ravished by her mind. Act III is devoted to a hilarious suicide pact in which despair gets...
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...