Word: floppings
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...NOVEMBER just such a show opened at the Colonial Theatre in Boston. The show, Dear World, had all the earmarks of a hit: a hot star (Angela Lansbury); a composer-lyricist who had never written for a flop (Jerry Herman, whose previous efforts included Hello Dolly and Mame); and a successful librettist team (Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, authors of Mame and Inherit the Wind). Dear World's five-week tryout engagement here was a virtual sellout before the opening night...
...groups of raiders almost shot it out, each thinking the other was Israeli. Last month, the fedayeen set up a council to coordinate raids between El Fatah and its two chief rivals, the Palestine Liberation Force and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or P.F.L.P. (inevitably pronounced "flop" by Westerners on the scene), a militantly leftist merger of several splinter organizations on the scene...
...VISIT to a bad show doesn't have to be a total loss. For one thing, you can learn the difference between a flop and a failure. A flop, in the words Walter Kerr used a few years back to describe a fiasco called Kelly, is "a bad idea gone wrong." Such a show, through its total ineptitude, can often be very funny. (A knowledgeable friend of mine who saw Kelly's one and only Broadway performance counts it among the most hilarious evenings he's ever spent in a theatre.) A failure, on the other hand, is a good...
Indeed Dear World has failure written all over it, and all the doctoring in the world probably cannot change that. Alexander Cohen at least can be thankful that he doesn't have a flop on his hands. It's probably small consolation to him, but it's even less consolation to the audience...
...North Vietnamese batted the ball right back to the U.S. Said Hanoi's Nhan Dan: "The U.S. propaganda campaign about a so-called breakthrough in Paris will end in a flop." In Paris, Colonel Lau complained: "The Americans' formulas change, give the appearance of being more supple. But in reality, they all boil down to the same thing-reciprocity. And we can't accept this...