Word: closet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enter the theatre you are handed a program that, when unfolded, is exactly thirty-four inches wide. That's to accommodate the title: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad. Yes, the smash hit of the Cambridge season two years ago, by Arthur L. Kopit '59, has at last, by way of London, reached the New York boards, where it opened not so many days...
...monumental styganoric narrative. And what she does with the simple epithet "slut" has to be heard to be believed. In all, an impressive performance. Opposite her, Sandor Szabo does admirably in the largely passive role of the Commodore who is a potential successor to dad-in-the-closet...
William and Jean Eckart designed the extremely handsome settings. Since the cast includes three Rosepettles, Commodore Rosabove, Rosalie, and Rosalinda the fish--and, for all I know, Jonathan may be keeping a "Rosebud" sled in his closet--it is no surprise that the chief color of the decor (and of some of the costumes) is rose, with which two pieces of orange-upholstered furniture are delightfully inharmonious. And Thomas Skelton's lighting, properly non-realistic, is stunning...
Whatever its actions in the past, the department now appears only too happy to divest itself of Mr. Feininger's courses. And, presumably, it has found in the Carpenter Visual Arts Center the proper closet for these discarded classes--even though the full faculty has officially recorded its disapproval of a plan to create a "Division of Studio Arts" at the Center that would be able to offer courses in painting, sculpture, architectural drawing, and even acting. (This idea, incidentally, can be traced to the 1955 Brown Report on the Visual Arts which first planted the idea of building...
...consequently, is about a pale young man whose mother locks him in his hotel room to keep him safe from the world outside. His father, mummified, does indeed hang in the closet...