SAY WHEN [Musical/Period] B/LY: Keith Winter; M: Arnold Goland; D/CH: Zoya Leporska; S: William Jame Wall; C: Lelia Larmon; L: Clarke W. Thornton; P: Walter Rosen Scholz; T: Plaza 9 Theatre (OB); 12/4/72-12/9/72 (7)
Note: No photos of this production appear to be available.
“[A] little monster” of a show about a 1970s New York magazine editor recalling the good old days of the 1920s. His memories are enacted in sketches, songs, and dances. Nothing about the work pleased Clive Barnes, who attacked the “derivative” book, lyrics, and music, the uninspired staging, the “cheap” visuals, and the company, to whom he offered “condolences.”
Richard Watts considered the show “strangely flat and
disappointing,” and Douglas Watt claimed it dripped “charm like a leaky bottle
of perfume.” The book writer and lyricist was a once well-respected novelist
and playwright and his material here was said to be semi-autobiographical.
