Word: chers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cher Antoine is a masterpiece," cheered France Soir. "A complete masterpiece, profound, sparkling, subtle, naive, poetic, comic, full of resonance." Wrote Le Figaro: "Anyone who doesn't like this piece knows nothing about human beings, has no love for the theater, can't recognize an author of talent and lacks a sense of humor...
...Paris theater currently has two-and only two-real hits. One of them, Hair, is in its 24th week. The other, which just opened, is Jean Anouilh's Cher Antoine. Any play by France's most widely performed modern playwright is bound to be bitingly witty and polished to a high gloss; this one, Anouilh's 28th, is even more so, and the critics were unreservedly delighted...
...third act is an epilogue in which a plaque is unveiled in honor of the dead playwright, who has presumably gone to the grave without revealing the existence of his last prophetic play. The dialogue rains poisoned darts on love, marriage, friendship and bourgeois values, making Cher Antoine a precision-tooled piece of lapidary Gallic...
...actors and essential stage hands are allowed in the theater during Anouilh's rehearsals, and everyone involved in an Anouilh production is generally expected to maintain strict silence about the play. On first nights he hides in a corner of the theater. As usual, after the opening of Cher Antoine, he slipped quietly out of the house before the applause began and shuffled off into the night, without taking a curtain call...
...Schneider, Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, and Rowan and Martin. Bishop trotted out such West Coast Establishmentarians as Ruth Gordon, George Burns, Tony Bennett, Milton Berle, Eddie Fisher, Rick (né Ricky) Nelson and Ed Ames. Griffin went for such familiar names as Woody Allen, Dinah Shore, and Sonny and Cher. But Griffin also offered a few surprises: Max Yasgur (the New York dairy farmer who rented his land to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair) and Billie Young (who as Penelope Ashe "wrote" Naked Came the Stranger...