
The Amorous Flea (1964, off-Broadway) - repro
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The delightfully witty and critically lauded 1964 Off-Broadway musical comedy 'The Amorous Flea' adapted Molière's classic 1662 farce The School for Wives. Featuring a sparkling, highly sophisticated rhythmic score by Bruce Montgomery and a crisp book by Jerry Devine, the production opened at the East 74th Street Theatre. The plot spins a web of classical farcical complications around Arnolphe, a wealthy, paranoid older man who holds his naive young ward in complete isolation to breed her into a perfectly submissive wife, only to be systematically undone by a dashing young suitor, starring Lew Parker and a stellar early ensemble.

