| More early Ludlam reviews and mentions in the Times | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:35 pm EST 03/02/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Yes, several examples - singleticket 03:08 pm EST 02/28/24 | |
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| Earlier still, Conquest of the Universe was favorably reviewed in the Times by Dan Sullivan on November 27, 1967. Sullivan was at that time the second-string critic. Among other things, he reviewed Darling of the Day when Barnes chose to instead review a new ballet by John Taras for NYCB. Sullivan soon became the primary Los Angeles Times critic. On March 3, 1968, in the “Arts and Leisure” section, there was an article titled “Up the Camp Staircase” by Rosalyn Regelson, about plays about and by gay people, which discussed a number of productions, including Big Hotel and Conquest of the Universe aka When Queens Collide. Ludlam was mentioned by name. Regelson devoted several long paragraphs to the Ridiculous movement, although she said that Conquest of the Universe and When Queens Collide, recently presented by the two competing Ridiculous companies under the two different titles, were “profoundly tedious,” which somehow in the context of all that she wrote did not seem so unfavorable as it sounds. Writing about the more mainstream Staircase, she made pointed statements that William Goldman, who should have credited her, repeated in The Season. After Bluebeard, on April 7, 1972, Gussow favorably reviewed Eunuchs of the Forbidden City, and it kept going from there. |
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