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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIGER MAKES OUT. Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson repeat their rollicking performances in Murray Schisgal's off-Broadway play, The Tiger, with an expanded scenario that overflows with cinematic sight and sound gags...
What makes it all the more extraordinary is the motley crew that put it together. Warren Beatty, its star and producer, has taken his own time living up to his original billing as the next James Dean of 1961; director Arthur Penn started out on Broadway, and went on to make a series of inconsistent pictures including The Miracle Worker, Mickey One (with Beatty), and The Chase; and his screenwriters, David Newman and Robert Benton, have as their one claim to fame their book to the less than wonderful musical It's Superman. But somehow their collaborative efforts have produced...
First, it is a part of a genre, not just a freak. Broadway sees at least two sex comedies every season. Sex comedies have nothing to do with real people, real love, or real sex, and it was a sex comedy, I think, that Walter Kerr called "the kind of play that gives flops a bad name...
Finally, there is the realization that this show has run for nearly two years in London, the greatest of English-speaking theatre cities, the city which has provided Broadway with most of its finest hours these past three years...
From the brittle material of his off-Broadway play The Tiger, Author Murray Schisgal has fashioned a cinematic cornucopia overflowing with sight and sound gags. In the end, the film degenerates into flat-out vaudeville buffoonery, but along the way it offers enough laughs to supply an entire season of canned TV comedies. The near-perfect performances of Jackson and Wallach-recreating their stage roles-are augmented by a parade of outstanding character actors. The funniest: Charles Nelson Reilly, as a clock-watching university registrar whose face is a festival of tics...