Once in a Lifetime | Stage: Once in a Lifetime
In the following excerpt, the author details the comical absurdities that take place within ‘‘Once in a Lifetime.’’
When Once in a Lifetime, the first play that Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman wrote together, was revived here a number of years ago it ran for exactly one performance.
The Circle in the Square’s leisurely but delightful version, which opened here last night, should do a great deal better. Some of the bones have fallen from the meat of this 1930 comedy; its insance logic has lost some of its logic, but there is plenty of insanity left.
And with John Lithgow sagging gently into a very large comic performance as George, the Heaven- favored fool who out-imbeciles...
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