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...Sing Muse" becomes the second Harvard play to receive a New York contract within the last two years. "Oh, Dad..!", by Arthur Kopit '59, will be presented next spring...
...marquees of Broadway may soon have to be enlarged until they stretch out over the Hudson River and poke the New Jersey Palisades; for a new American playwright is about to arrive, and his considerable ability is exceeded only by the length of his titles. At 24, Arthur L. Kopit is scarcely out of Harvard, but he has already shaped his talents on a series of campus productions that included How Sweet the Wine and How Dark the Color, To Dwell in a Palace of Strangers, Sing to Me Through Open Windows, and On the Runway of Life You Never...
What is remarkable is that Writer Kopit, after using up so much creative energy on his titles, had something left over for the plays themselves. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, described in undergraduate fashion by the playwright himself as "a pseudoclassical tragifarce in a bastard French tradition." shows influences in every scene-from strong, cynical gusts of Jean Anouilh, Marcel Ayme and Jean Giraudoux down to weak, cynical undertones of Elizabeth Taylor: "He's dead. Listen to me. I'm alive." It is a spoof of everything from waltzing toreadors to Tennessee Williams; and like the characters of Williams...
...Corsaro. who emphasizes the sinister at the expense of the humorously macabre. In her first stage appearance after a dozen years of teaching, Stella Adler didn't seem quite ready for Madame Rosepettle. However, the Times conceded that the play was "hilarious," and the Daily Mail said of Kopit: "He writes like an angel or, to be more precise, like a mischievous cherub who has just had a highly diverting season in hell and is dying to tell all about...
Electrical Circuit. Whether he is describing a character who is "ugly as a humid day" or a place that is "humming with imbeciles," Arthur Kopit is indeed a writer, and the appeal of his work is in the cutting edge of authenticity with which he hacks his way through phony jungles. Personally soft-spoken and completely unaffected, Kopit is the son of a jewelry salesman, grew up in Lawrence, Long Island. At Harvard on a scholarship, he majored in engineering and learned his playwrighting in the Dunster House Drama Workshop. If his material is bizarre, it is designed with...