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at the Cohoes Music Hall
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November 12 - 14 & 19 - 21, 1999
Friday and Saturday - Curtain 8:00 PM
Sunday Matinee - Curtain 2:00 PM
Tickets: $10. Adults
$8. Students & Seniors |
Cohoes Music Hall
58 Remsen Street
Cohoes
This was one of the most successful
comedies in Broadway history. The topic is sex, in all its mysterious and fascinating
manifestations, and the treatment of this is so skillful, tasteful and explosively funny
that the plays are not only captivating and touching, but universal in appeal. "...a
masterly light touch...we have a delightful gift of springtime in the Broadway
theatre." --NY Daily News. "The best and brightest new American play of the
season...." --NY World Journal Tribune. "...notably fine comic and dramatic
episodes, written with skill and insight...." --NY Post.
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THE STORIES: As the New York Daily News
briefly outlines:
"(THE SHOCK OF RECOGNITION) breaks in on a difference of opinion between ... an
earnest young dramatist, and ... his matter-of-fact producer who doesn't like theng
moment of the play. A wife is having breakfast in bed and she says something to her
husband, who is in the bathroom. So he comes out, jaybird naked, and yells to her. 'You
know I can't hear you when the water's running.' The producer doesn't think this
confrontation is quite nice or necessary. The author insists that the scene is quite
important -- and, after all, it lasts only an instant. So a quarrel over taste develops,
and a job-hunting actor ... becomes involved, demonstrating how he would handle the role.
Also involved is ... the producer's secretary ....
(THE FOOTSTEPS OF DOVES) shows us a couple who, wed 25 years, come to a store to pick out
a new bed or beds. Should they buy twin beds or a double? ... and they don't get much
sales effort from the saleswoman. Into the discussion, uninvited, comes a blonde young
thing ... who wants a big bed because she is all alone.
(I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS) maintains the light humor of the first two, but at base it is
serious and touching as it shows [parents] discussing sex education of their almost-adult
children, a girl and boy. [The father] is quite moving when he learns in a letter that his
son is cutting adrift from the parental harbor. For a windup there is
(I'M HERBERT) about two old, old people sitting on a porch in a pair of rocking chairs and
talking. Just talking -- and of course they don't know how funny they are. Each has had
one or more previous marriages and perhaps a few flings, but they are hazy as to details.
In fact, they don't always know which one the other one is."
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