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Mike Downstairs

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Mike Downstairs
Written byGeorge Panetta
Date premiered18 April 1968
Place premieredHudson Theatre, New York City
Original languageEnglish
Genrecomedy
SettingLittle Italy, Manhattan

Mike Downstairs is a 1968 American play.[1] It was poorly reviewed and had a short run on its Broadway debut despite starring Dane Clark.[2]

The play was also profiled in the William Goldman book The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway. Goldman called it the best of the plays that came out in April of its year. He summaried it as " a Spinoza-spouting Italian gets upset when the Authorities insist on holding an air-raid drill in preparation for when the Bomb drops, and he is beaten or killed and dragged off stage while all his friends roll around on the floor as the curtain comes down. (The play was a comedy.)"[3]

References

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  1. ^ Mike Downstairs at Playbill accessed 16 June 2013
  2. ^ CLIVE BARNES (Apr 19, 1968). "Theater: Life, Times and a Holocaust in Little Italy: 'Mike Downstairs' by George Panetta Opens Dane Clark in Lead Role at the Hudson". New York Times. p. 35.
  3. ^ Goldman p 335
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