charlesmarowitz

One of the strangest anomalies in the theater is that of the successful turkey — plays that are essentially trivial, gauche and insubstantial, but still manage to achieve a certain kind of notoriety and even commercial success.\”Shear Madness,\” which has been playing for 15 years in Boston, is such a play; so was \”Kvetch,\” which completed a seven-year run in Los Angeles, the same city in which \”Bleacher Bums\” ran for 11 years.\”Abie\’s Irish Rose\” racked up 2,854 performances on Broadway –although it\’s depth could be measured with the first digit of one\’s pinky.