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| Gregory Smith, Wayland Flowers. |
KUMQUATS [Musical
Revue/Puppets/Sex] B/LY: Cosmo Richard Falcon; M: Gustavo Motta; D: Nicholas
Coppola; DS: Wayland Flowers; L: Ken Moses; P: Cosmo R. Falcon and Wayland
Flowers i/a/w Art and Bert D’Lugoff; T: Village Gate Theatre (OB);
11/15/71-1/2/72 (53)
A short, amusing, adult puppet and live action musical revue
that satirized American preoccupations with sex. It was billed as “The World’s
First Erotic Puppet Show,” which seems unlikely. Many puppets of different
sizes were employed in this cabaret-style show, whose conception was the
brainchild of puppeteer Wayland Flowers. Among the bits in the two-act show
were those titled “The Evil Fairy and the Hippie,” “The Wee Scotsman,” “Adam
and Eve,” “The Fairy and the Hard Hat,” “Madam Meets a Midget,” “Mao Tse
Tongue, and ” “The Story of Ooooh!” the contents of which you are free to
imagine on your own.
Howard Thompson enjoyed it considerably, but Michael Feingold could only recommend it “mildly.” “Nothing great,” he offered, “but a few clever moments, [and] a mildly cheery spirit,” with the puppets “all very ingeniously handled.”
