| Back in the distant past, two very successful French playwrights, Pierre Barrilet and Jean-Pierre Gredy had three plays adapted for Broadway, The first, CACTUS FLOWER in 1968, was a smash hit, running three years - adapted and directed by Abe Burrows and starring Lauren Bacall-produced by David Merrick. A month after CACTUS FLOWER closed, in November 1968, Merrick opened another Barillet-Gredy-Burrows play, FORTY CARATS. This time Julie Harris was the star. It ran almost two years. 14 years later different producers tried to make lightning strike three times. But neither adapter Jay Presson Allen nor director Meadow were a patch on Abe Burrows - and MTC isnt David Merrick. Despite Lansbury and John McMartin as sgtars. It flopped. |
