Word: itching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seven Year Itch (by George Axelrod) bagged a batch of fine reviews on opening night. It possesses a lively popular theme. It is full of humorous, situations. It boasts an engaging leading man. What it lacks, unfortunately, is any real merit as a play...
...want everything lip-smackingly spelled out for them will find much of the play a bore. It is less a play, in fact, than an anthology of familiar little situations, a lot of them banged out too loud and too long. In The Seven Year Itch, sex is something that not so much rears its head as never once lowers it. Rather than freshness of finesse, the play exhibits an astute sense of the obvious...
...ministry. He went to the St. Petersburg Bible Institute in Florida, then Illinois' Wheaton College (where he met his wife), then accepted a pastorate in Western Springs, Ill. But a pastor's life seemed an unexciting routine of baptisms, marriages, fund-raisings and funerals. Billy had an itch for new places and new faces; the vineyard he needed was a national hookup, not a village church...
...Seven Year Itch found the rainbow somewhere. Elliott Nugent and Courtney Burr tossed together some foul gags and spicy acting and came out with an unexplicably funny production, now at the Wilbur...
Although The Seven Year Itch is a successfully amusing comedy, it achieves this effect despite a good deal of repetitious dialogue and too many unsatisfactory performances. It's thus dismaying to find Elliott Nugent's name listed as production supervisor, since he has turned out far better products than this...