re: Children! Children! - The Play Flop Starring Gwen Verdon..?
As another on the short list of people living today who saw Children Children, I have a different view from a number of the posts here. The show was so-so but not a disaster. It had some interesting moments. Gwen gave a good performance. This is not an opinion formed in hindsight but was my comment back in 1972 when discussing the show. The early 70s was an era of economic weakness for Broadway, and a number of shows opened under a "closing notice." Those shows had weak advance sales and the ...