Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...INDIAN WANTS THE BRONX and IT'S CALLED THE SUGAR PLUM are one-acters marking the propitious off-Broadway debut of 28-year-old Israel Horovitz. Plum is an absurdist love waltz between a boy and a girl. Bronx boils up a cauldron of terror with the litter of abused humanity, as out of sheer desperate boredom, two street punks ridicule, badger, and finally knife to death a bewildered East Indian on his first day in New York City...
...works seems largely a matter of pacing and acting. The script, taken from Frederick Knott's most recent Broadway thriller, wouldn't be worth a damn if badly played. Although it is relentlessly logical, it starts from an incredible premise--that a blind housewife, alone and confronted by a maniac and two criminal associates, would engage them in a battle of wits instead of just dissolving...
Weak-Kneed Henchman. To further assure opening-night disaster, the producers then proceed to sign up the queen of Broadway's limp-wristed directors, hire a totally mind-blown hippie (Dick Shawn) as their star, and attempt to bribe the New York Times drama critic by wrapping his ticket in a hundred dollar bill. To no avail. The show is unintentionally funny, the public floods the box office with orders, and Mostel and Wilder are floated up the river for fraud...
...efforts to get abreast of 1968 jargon and sexual tolerance, Samuel Taylor continues to live in the past. It speaks, well for the past. Taylor's new play Avanti, the offspring of now-forgotten works by S. N. Behrman and Philip Barry, already holds its own against the best Broadway comedies current; with a little rewriting, and one much-altered performance, it could succeed on a more absolute level...