
The Saturday Night Kid (1957 tryout, Shelley Winters. Closed Philadelphia) - repro
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Matt Conley’s (Correction: Edward Harvey's) highly publicized 1957 drawing-room comedy 'The Saturday Night Kid' infamously collapsed, encountered critical hostility, and closed during its out-of-town pre-Broadway tryout engagement at Philadelphia's historic Walnut Street Theatre, never reaching its planned New York debut. The textually rich naturalistic drama unfolds entirely inside a cramped apartment lot over a single sweltering weekend, tracking an unpolished local youth whose life enters an existential crisis, starring Academy Award winner Shelley Winters, preserved here.

