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Off-Broadway Revival Lasts 52 Performances


CACTUS FLOWER is apparently not a play for the ages - the recent off-Broadway revival will close April 24 after 52 performances:

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/149546-Cactus-Flower-With-Maxwell -Caulfield-and-Lois-Robbins-to-End-Off-Broadway-Run

The article apparently confuses Gene Saks, director of the 1969 film, with director Jerry Zaks.

I don't recall much hoopla about its recent screen reconfiguration as JUST GO WITH IT, but according to Wikipedia the film grossed $177,732,562 - they report its budget at $80,000,000 - more than twenty-five times that of CACTUS FLOWER, and more than three times the original film's BO gross!

EIGHTY MILLION DOLLARS to film a comedy?????????

"In my case, self-absorption is completely justified."

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