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...CAPTAIN by Jan de Hartog. 434 pages. Atheneum...
David Merrick describes the season as "another year of Merrick." Among the ten shows he is producing are two musicals: / Do! I Do!, based on Jan de Hartog's The Fourposter, starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston; and Breakfast at Tiffany's, which boasts Composer-Lyricist Bob Merrill (Funny Girl), Director Abe Burrows (Cactus Flower) and, as Holly Golightly, Mary Tyler Moore from TV's Dick Van Dyke Show...
...Inspector, De Hartog...
...Game, was given an insultingly inept performance. After a quick reshuffling of plans, the Playhouse bounced back with a fairly amusing production of F. Hugh Herbert's delightful sophisticated comedy, The Moon is Blue, in which Frank Langella and Frederick Morehouse '59-3 performed with considerable skill. Jan de Hartog's The Four-poster, a series of lovely vignettes of married life, came off moderately well in the hands of Tad Danielewski and Sylvia Daneel; but the play really cries out for polished husband-and-wife teams like Hume Cronyn-Jessica Tandy and Rex Harrison-Lili Palmer...
...third offering of the season The Boston Summer Playhouse is presenting a pleasant, if not exceptional production of Jan de Hartog's The Fourposter. This amusing account of the hills and valleys of married life is really a delightful and tightly written little play. The plot covers thirty-five years of marriage, including the embarrassment of the wedding night, the birth of the first child, the problems with the teenage children, the "other woman," and finally the mellow maturity of middle...