Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arthur Kopit, the young Harvard graduate whose play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad is one of off-Broadway's most durable current hits, once wrote a play called Aubade. But he is not the sort of fellow who would make that mistake twice. His middle period, when he was about 21 a few months back, was notable for a three-acter called On the Runway of Life You Never Know What's Coming Off Next, a play that unfortunately contained its entire essence...
...Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit, mobilizes undergraduate humor and surrealistic props to launch a hilariously bizarre offensive against poor...
...decade have given the theatrical scene, including Shubert Alley's fearful fat cats, a healthy and creative shaking-up. Off-Broadway fostered the fresh and uninhibited talents of such playwrights as Edward Albee (The American Dream), Jack Richardson (Gallows Humor), Jack Gelber (The Connection) and Arthur Kopit (Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad). Such playwrights as Shaw, Ibsen, Chekhov, Moliere, Pirandello and O'Casey -all banished from Broadway on the not unlikely ground that there isn't a theater party blockbuster...
During the weekend, the Toronto students will hear a panel discussion on "American Foreign Policy and Disarmament." They will also see a performance of "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad," and attend a banquet. Sunday they will lunch at Holmes Hall. A speech by Radcliffe's President Bunting will officially end the festivities...
...means anything, Congressman Mills will exercise good business judgment. Will cutting taxes stimulate the economy? Any new business demands risk before profit. And isn't all of life, economy included, a matter of trial and error? Wilbur Mills will minimize error. That is, if he takes after his dad...