
Children! Children! (1972, Gwen Verdon) - repro
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Jack Horrigan’s short-lived 1972 Broadway suspense thriller 'Children! Children!' infamously collapsed and closed on its official opening night at the Ritz Theatre. The clock-stopping, claustrophobic plot unfolds over a single snowy New Year's Eve inside a luxurious Gramercy Park duplex apartment, tracking an aristocratic, recovering mentally ill woman who is hired to babysit three seemingly angelic children, collapsing into a terrifying psychological trap when the youth begin gaslighting her into a lethal heart attack. Directed by Albert Marre, this production starred stage royalty Gwen Verdon in a rare straight dramatic lead performance.

