Word: flopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...children tumble downstairs on Christmas morning, breathlessly expecting the unexpected present. But too many lemons showed up in the theatrical stocking, and audiences became wearier and warier. Production costs jumped, and off-Broadway found itself increasingly prey to the worst of Broadway's ailments, the hit-or-flop syndrome. So the off-Broadway theater is in crisis-an un-fabulous invalid. Luckily, this decline has zapped most vanity productions and self-indulgent exercises in beatnicknack-ery. The remnants, plus some earnest repertory and some irreverent topical comedy, still offer venturous playgoers a measure of dramatic experiment and serious theater...
...here please go see King Lear and get outta here," the A and R man announced. Not one of the thousands of teenie rockers packed into Brandeis's Shapiro Athletic Center was about to leave, and for the next hour-and-a half they sat through a series of flop warm-up acts waiting to get a look at the three super Supremes. Finally at the half, with the gym's scoreboard reading "visitors zero," they came, Diana, Mary...
...models don jeweled or plain bras that allowed the one-shoulder evening dresses to drape as they pleased. Even that had to yield to Ognibene-Zendman's show-stealing suit: one quick tug at its hidden waistband controls and the skirt's pleats reverse themselves, flop over from blue to green...
...spirit resists evil. As for the spectacle of the supine young Adonis having his flesh and heart beaked out by grotesque female vultures, the ritual is overly familiar and more than a bit of a drag. Lolling in this effete bordello of his imagination, Albee achieved his first quick flop (seven performances) and his tiniest play...
...nearly awestruck at the achievement, which is perfectly fine since the only other reactions the film could possibly produce are boredom and fury at having paid the whopping three dollar admission. Paris is so interminably long, so badly acted, so deliciously incoherent that it could very well be the flop of the year, nay, the decade...