Millburn, N.J.: how old did you say you were?(FRONT and CENTER)(Theater Review)
American Theatre, January, 2005 by Wren, Celia
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"All the fun and gaiety of a burning orphanage"--so ran Variety's blistering critique of the 1971 film Harold and Maude, about the love affair between a suicide-obsessed youth and a wacky 79-year-old woman. But legions of fans have disagreed, and screenwriter Colin Higgins's oddball romance--with its black humor and poignant Cat Stevens soundtrack--has attained the status of cult classic.
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One of those longtime fans was Tom Jones, book writer and lyricist for The Fantasticks (1960) and now the co-author, with composer Joseph Thalken, of Harold and Maude: The Musical. ...
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