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...time high Broadway gross of $55 million, up 2% from the season before. Among the high spots were: one major S.R.O. smash, the musical Cabaret; two comedy clicks, Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running and Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy; one important drama, Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, which turned a profit only because of a movie sale; and the settling in, for the first time in 28 years, of a first-rate rep company...
BLACK COMEDY. The suspense of whether the characters in Peter Shaffer's comedy will hit or miss in the dark is the mainspring of this merry-go-round. Michael Crawford and Geraldine Page lead the gymnastics...
BLACK COMEDY mixes a technique of Chinese theater with stage business from vaudeville. It is strictly a one-joke play-about the goings-on when the lights go off -but the joke works. Peter Shaffer is the playwright, Michael Crawford and Geraldine Page the leading actors...
BLACK COMEDY. Fireworks are best in the dark, and when the lights blow out in a London flat, a situation fraught with friction sets off sparks of hilarity. An agile and acrobatic cast keeps Peter Shaffer's latest dramatic exercise in amusing motion...
BLACK COMEDY. Fireworks are best in the dark, and when the lights blow out in a London flat, a situation fraught with friction sets off sparks of hilarity. An agile and acrobatic cast keeps Peter Shaffer's latest dramatic exercise in amusing motion...