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...what he is saying by suggestion," and thought the play "has a self-consciousness in its studied madness that can be unfortunately tiresome." James Davis (Daily News) shrugged the show off as "a total bust. Playwright Kopit seems to have a funny sense of humor--funny peculiar." And John McClain (Journal-American) called it "every bit as perverse and nonsensical as the title...
...actual score among the daily critics when they reviewed Subways Are for Sleeping was three negatives (Kerr, Taubman, and John McClain of the Journal-American) against three positives (Watts, Chapman, and Robert Coleman of the Mirror), with the World-Telegram's Norman Nadel hanging in the air. Said the real Kerr: "Limp." Quoth the real Taubman: "Stumbles as if suffering from somnambulism...dull and vapid...
Most favorable was John McClain, first-string critic of the Journal-American. He concluded that "Sing Muse is fresh, funny and melodic. Better put the look...
WARREN C. McCLAIN...
...John McClain had not enjoyed himself as much as all that. "I couldn't divorce myself from the fact that I was spending too much time with an idiot boy," he wrote. The play had been little more than "an overextension of a quite small idea." The practice of turning reviewers inside out is hardly exclusive to Broadway. Last week in London, the Daily Telegraph's exacting critic, W. A. Darlington, fumed over a sign outside the Strand Theater quoting him as urging the public: BY ALL MEANS GO AND SEE THIS PLAY. "If triviality is what...