Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad (1967) torrent download



Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling so Sad


A Pseudo-Classical Tragifarce in a bastard French Tradition





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Arthur Kopit wrote Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad 





while he was studying European theater on a postgraduate travel scholarship earned at 





Harvard. His aim was to enter the work in a school playwriting contest, never anticipating 





that it would bring him worldwide acclaim at the age of twenty-three. As its subtitle 





indicated, he wrote the play as a parody— "a pseudo-classical tragifarce in a bastard French 





tradition"—in the new, avant garde French theater of Arthur Adamov, Eugene Ionesco, and 





Samuel Beckett. It was this subgenre of the theater that, in 1961, Martin Esslin labeled the 





Theatre of the Absurd.





Kopit’s Oh Dad has the distinction of being a relatively rare phenomenon: an extremely 





successful first work staged in New York by a new and virtually unknown playwright. When Oh 





Dad opened at New York’s Phoenix Theatre on February 26, 1962, beginning a run of 454 





performances, it already had a production history, both in the United States and abroad. In 





fact, the play was published in 1960, the same year in which it was first staged at Harvard 





and then, professionally, at the Agassiz Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was during 





it’s run at the Agassiz that it came to the attention of the staff of the Phoenix. Before 





the Phoenix mounted its extremely successful production, however, the work had already been 





staged in London, where it was directed by Frank Corsaro and starred Stella Adler as Madame 





Rosepettle.





In the New York staging, directed by Jerome Robbins, an experienced cast headed by Jo Van 





Fleet as Madame Rosepettle, Austin Pendleton as Jonathan, and Barbara Harris as Rosalie kept 





audiences delighted, making it a major box-office success. It also garnered the Vernon Rice 





and Outer Circle Awards, both significant honors.





The offbeat, dysfunctional characters—especially Madame Rosepettle and her son, Jonathan— 





caused some critics to complain about a lack of serious purpose in the play as well as its 





derivative elements, but the farcical and fanciful treatment of an overly-protective, 





domineering mother and her neurotic son gave New York and European audiences little pause. 





Most commentators could not argue with success and found the play a engaging spoof of 





everything from Tennessee Williams's Rose Tattoo to Freudian psychology.





The play moved to Broadway:





Morosco Theatre, (8/27/1963 - 10/5/1963) 


Preview: Aug 26, 1963   Total Previews: 1 


Opening: Aug 27, 1963       


Closing: Oct 5, 1963   Total Performances: 47 





Opening Night Production Credits 





Produced by Roger L. Stevens and T. Edward Hambleton; Produced by arrangement with The 





Phoenix Theatre (T. Edward Hambleton: Co-Founder and Managing Director; Norris Houghton: 





Co-Founder)





Written by Arthur Kopit; Incidental music by Robert Prince





Directed by Jerome Robbins





Opening Night Cast





Ernesto Aponte  Bellboy    


Alix Elias  Rosalie    


Gary Garth  Bellboy    


Hermione Gingold  Madame Rosepettle    


Carl Guttenberger  Bellboy    


John Hallow  Head Bellboy    


Thom Koutsoukos  Bellboy    


Peter Lenahan  Bellboy    


Jamie Sanchez  Bellboy    


Sandor Szabo  Commodore Roseabove    


Sam Waterston  Jonathan  





Awards 


  


1962 Drama Desk Award Vernon Rice Award  Written by Arthur Kopit [winner]  





Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad (1967) 





http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0062067/





Directed by Richard Quine    Alexander Mackendrick   


  


Writing credits 


Arthur L. Kopit   (play)


Ian Bernard   (screenplay)


Herbert Baker and Pat McCormick  (narration)  





 Rosalind Russell ...  Madame Rosepettle 


 Robert Morse ...  Jonathan 


 Barbara Harris ...  Rosalie 


 Hugh Griffith ...  Commodore Roseabove 


 Jonathan Winters ...  Dad (Narrator) 


 Lionel Jeffries ...  Airport Commander 


 Cyril Delevanti ...  Hawkins 


 Hiram Sherman ...  Breckenduff 


 George Kirby ...  Moses 


 Janis Hansen ...  The Other Woman 





The film has many flaws of sex comedies of late the 1960s 'camp' period but the most glaring 





and bad element of this film is undoubtedly the unfunny and intrusive  'narration' by 





Jonathan Winters.  The would probably have been a film that did not stand the test of time 





in any case but it is Winters' performance that truly drags this vehicle down.
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