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...AMERICA HURRAH is as refreshing and shocking as a dive into cold water. The playlets by Jean-Claude van Itallie are the season's most original American drama...
...Broadway Theater, which has averaged about three successes, financial or critical, in recent seasons, was adorned with a dozen - most notably, the anguishingly funny America Hurrah. Even further afield, touring companies - which, according to Variety, drew $32 million in 1965-66 and have never topped $40 million - pulled in $43.6 million this season. That does not count one other extension of the road. London this month is showing no fewer than seven U.S. imports, from Hello Dolly! to The Odd Couple, and Amer ica Hurrah will open there in August...
...theatre's current preoccupation with plays which come in kissing distance of history. Across the country, regional repertory companies are putting on Mother Courage ("anti-war"); In White America, The Slave, Dutchman, and Blues for Mr. Charlie ("race relations"); and Marat/Sade ("revolutionary violence"). Off Broadway successes include America Hurrah and The Deer Park ("searing indictments"). Even our theatre of the boulevard is mining social commentry. Two successful musicals of the Broadway season were Cabaret, which touches on Fascism, and Hallelujah Baby, which is nominally concerned with Negroes: Neil Simon's newest laff riot, The Star Spangled Girl, is all about...
...AMERICA HURRAH. In three short plays, Jean-Claude van Itallie unravels some skeins of modern life and finds that they lead to confusion, satiety and destruction...
...Hurrah, Boys! Meanwhile, Custer had sighted the eastern edge of the Indian camp and decided to attack. Thinking the warriors were asleep in their tepees, Custer shouted: "Hurrah, boys, we've got them! We'll finish them up and then go home." With 205 men and a newspaper reporter, Custer charged-and the rest is history...