Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparently messianic indifference to commercial pressure. Their production of Alice in Wonderland, an hour and a half wonder but the result of fourteen months of work, deserved its success in Cambridge and now runs off Broadway. Their five week stay at the Loeb amounted to an out-of-town tryout, but consisted of giving-giving instruction, giving experience, rather than taking. There were of course many specific problems with each of these undertakings, but the Loeb itself became an activated unit generating excitement in a rather uninspiring summer...
...first week of its Boston tryout. Who to Love. the new musical based on William Alfred's Hogan's Goal, doesn't succeed on that basic level. It is not a terrible musical, it is a painful one. But, as I see it, better bad than painful; I'd take the recent Georgy, an infinitely worse product, over this depressing melodrama any day of the week...