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Clinton, N. J., Hunterdon Hills Playhouse: Under the Yum-Yum Tree, with Red Buttons...
Commenting on theatrical trends, he noted that on Broadway, every season is called worse than the one before--and it's usually true. More and more of Broadway is being left to expensive musicals and those serious plays like "Under the Yum-Yum Tree," and "jazz like that." He observed that off-Broadway has become "the conscience of the theatre...
...Tenderloin and Do Re Mi. Wildcat and The Unsinkable Molly Brown were originals, but pretty bad, leaving top honors again to an import-the jaunty and charmingly French Irma La Douce. The only other works at least technically original were dreary farces-Send Me No Flowers (closed), Under the Yum-Yum Tree, Critic's Choice. In the forthcoming The Conquering Hero and Carnival, Broadway is not even adapting books, but reconverting old movies (Hail the Conquering Hero and Lili...
Irma La Douce. In a pert and piquant Parisian musical, Elizabeth Seal proves herself Broadway's yummiest yum-yum girl...
Under the Yum-Yum Tree (by Lawrence Roman) is the sort of light sex comedy that a critic can't come down on too heavily. One wrinkle to its romance is that, though boy wants to marry, girl thinks they should first live together platonically. The other wrinkle is Hogan, the landlord across the hall, a bachelor with a knack for getting into people's hair and ladies' bedrooms. Out of this new-style ménage á troïs come three acts of calculated on-the-brinkmanship and technically innocent shenanigans...