Dr. O'Hara, It's Your Mother, Mrs. Horowitz, Calling (1968, Jackie Mason Tryout)

Comedic icon Jackie Mason’s short-lived 1968 pre-Broadway tryout comedy 'A Teaspoon Every Four Hours' launched its highly publicized out-of-town engagement under its working title, 'Dr. O'Hara, It's Your Mother, Mrs. Horowitz, Calling,' at the historic Playwrights Theatre. The frantic farcical plot centers on a deeply neurotic, middle-aged Jewish bachelor who orchestrates an intricate web of domestic deceptions to convince his overbearing mother that he has become a successful corporate physician, collapsing into frantic panic when she visits his chaotic clinic. Directed by Mason himself, this rare piece remains a top-tier rarity for theatrical historians documenting out-of-town failures.