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BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Playwright Neil Simon, Director Mike Nichols and Stars Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford pack a hamperful of laughs for this comic picnic about two newlyweds and their ups and downs in a six-flight walkup...
...there, as they say, goes the picnic...
...Well, picnic fans, it looks like rain today. The weatherman dampened the hopes of thousands of eager picnic-goers this morning by forecasting cloudiness, possible thunder-showers, and generally nasty weather for today...
Such enterprise might easily be mistaken for coming to the picnic in overcoat and vest, especially since the Philharmonic is a beginner at a game best played in Boston, and a rather stuffy beginner at that. But the mood Kostelanetz was after was something on the order of refined amusement. The staid rows of amber seats had been removed from Philharmonic Hall and replaced by tables and chairs as closely packed as in a Paris cafe. As the orchestra played, the audience sipped champagne and gazed around the hall. To such a cheerful atmosphere, Kostelanetz merely wanted to add music...
Next came time for a bow to a revered institution: the American family. Lyndon ordered picnic tables set up in his backyard, piled them with cookies, stocked them with pitchers of pink punch, called for a press conference and in vited reporters to bring along the wife and kiddies. More than 1,000 turned up. The Marine Band played Merrily We Roll Along, Jingle Bells and America. The children drank the punch, crumbled the cookies, meditatively tore up tufts of the White House lawn and, with a certain amount of nudging from their mothers, laughed politely when Lyndon told them...