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| Susan McAnemy, Lyle Pearsons, Nancy Demings, Lloyd Bremseth. |
KISS NOW [Musical
Revue] B/LY: Maxine Klein; M: William S. Fischer; D: Maxine Klein; CH: Sandra
Caprin; S/C: Richard Devin; C: Nancy Adzima; P: John Ramsey, William Formaad,
Milan Stitt; T: Martinique Theatre (OB); 4/20/71-4/23/71 (4)
Kiss Now was lucky
to get in four smooches before vanishing for good, with its audience
participation gimmick of “kissing,” each touch of a spectator by an actor
being considered a symbolic peck. There thus were elbow kisses and knee kisses
and so on. Sort of a pre-pandemic buss-fest. The critics’ reaction could be summed up by a variation of the old
lyrics, “Kiss me once and kiss me twice but don’t dare kiss me once again.”
Mel Gussow was disenchanted by the “fake” intentions and
execution, which he thought dull, repetitious, and juvenile. “The show is as
predictable as the alphabet.”
