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...want to tax your brain, then go to The Owl and the Pussycat (at the ANTA Theatre). This two-person comedy by Bill Manhoff is a chain of spats and reunions between an evicted prostitute and the would-be writer she descends upon. It has its share of clever lines; but the show's great virtue is the transcendentally brilliant performance by young Diana Sands. Hitherto mainly admired for her power in serious drama, she shows here that comedy is just as much her forte. Or, in this case, fortissimo--for she bulldozes her way right through the show with...
...Broadway THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, by Bill Manhoff, is as timeless as a Punch-and-Judy show and as timely as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Diana Sands, as a sexy pussycat who claws, and Alan Alda, as a bookish owl who screeches, fill the evening with good, vulgar, neurotic laughter...
POOR BITOS hinges on the visceral French political sport of right-baits-left. With more intellectual acuity than passion Jean Anouilh goes back to Robespierre to perform a masterly autopsy on the revolutionary mentality. As Bitos-Robespierre, Donald Pleasence is phenomenally good THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, by Bill Manhoff, is as timeless as a Punch-and-Judy show and as timely as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Diana Sands as a sexy pussycat who claws and Alan Alda as a bookish owl who screeches, fill the evening with good, vulgar, neurotic laughter...
...Pussycat, by Bill Manhoff. A verbal slugfest between a man and a woman is the contemporary form of the mating dance. The man may not want to go to bed with the girl, as the hero of this play doesn't, but he realizes that it may be the only way to get her to shut up. Pussycat is as old as the Punch-and-Judy show and as new as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and the evening is filled with good, healthy, vulgar, neurotic laughter...
...ruination of the play. Diana Sands is a fiery, sexy shrew who puts plenty of lip on her English. Arms akimbo and eyes aglaze, Alan Alda flaps haplessly after every disaster like a commuter ignored at a bus stop. Director Arthur Storch keeps Pussycat yowling along, and if Playwright Manhoff does some comic counterfeiting, he also mints plenty of sound money lines ("I happen to be an intellectual. That means that I am not at the mercy of what I want...