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ADAPTATION-NEXT. Elaine May directs two of last season's funniest one-acters. Adaptation, which Miss May also wrote, is the game of life staged like a television game. Next, by Terrence McNally, has James Coco in a fine performance as a middle-aged man undergoing a series of humiliating pre-induction examinations...
December will bring the new Neil Simon play to the Colonial. Titled The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, it is the story of a seafood restaurant entrepreneur and a trio of mistresses. The middleaged hero will be played by James Coco, who made a splash last season in the New York production of Next. The director is Robert Moore, who contributed the dazzling staging accountable for much of the success of New York's current Boys in the Band and Promises, Promises...
ADAPTATION-NEXT are two one-acters, the first, a corrosively perceptive satire by Elaine May, cleverly staged like a TV-contest game of life; the second, by Terrence McNally, about an overage draftee commandingly played by James Coco...
...runway; it was one way to top off a skirt. Courreges had a model roar up to the footlights in a minicar with a Plexiglas dome, and presented another wearing pingpong balls pasted on her oversized sunglasses. Cecil Beaton sketched. Lauren Bacall applauded. Katharine Hepburn hid out from photographers. Coco Chanel curled up on the salon stairway while her collection was shown and coolly surveyed the crush below. But then Chanel has been around long enough to know that nothing very extraordinary was going on. Nothing but the Paris fall fashion showings-and the first glimpse of the season...
ADAPTATION-NEXT. Two one-acters, both directed with a crisp and zany comic flair by Elaine May. Miss May's own play, Adaptation, is the game of life staged like a TV contest. Terrence McNally's Next features James Coco in a splendid performance as an overage potential draftee...