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color:rgb(151,0,51)" title="Credits 11 persons and/or companies">Owners</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left">05/14/1973</td> <td style="text-align:left">05/15/1973</td> </tr> <tr style="border-top:1px solid #f5f5f5"> <td>2</td> <td> <a href="/Production/2896" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(151,0,51)" title="Credits 17 persons and/or companies">El Grande de Coca-Cola</a><sup>1</sup> </td> <td style="text-align:left">02/13/1973</td> <td style="text-align:left">08/03/1973</td> </tr> <tr style="border-top:1px solid #f5f5f5"> <td>3</td> <td> <a href="/Production/2974" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(151,0,51)" title="Credits 8 persons and/or companies">F.O.B.</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left">11/24/1972</td> <td style="text-align:left">11/26/1972</td> </tr> <tr style="border-top:1px solid #f5f5f5"> <td>4</td> <td> <a href="/Production/2878" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(151,0,51)" title="Credits 27 persons and/or companies">Doctor Selavy's Magic Theatre</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left">11/23/1972</td> <td style="text-align:left">03/25/1973</td> </tr> <tr style="border-top:1px solid #f5f5f5"> <td>5</td> <td> <a href="/Production/2847" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(151,0,51)" title="Credits 20 persons and/or companies">Aesop's Fables</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left">08/17/1972</td> <td style="text-align:left">09/19/1972</td> </tr> <tr style="border-top:1px solid #f5f5f5"> <td>6</td> <td> <a href="/Production/2848" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(151,0,51)" title="Credits 20 persons and/or companies">Speed Gets the Poppies</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left">07/25/1972</td> <td style="text-align:left">07/30/1972</td> </tr> <tr style="border-top:1px solid #f5f5f5"> <td>7</td> <td> <a href="/Production/4516" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(151,0,51)" title="Credits 17 persons and/or companies">And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left">04/21/1972</td> <td style="text-align:left">05/05/1972</td> </tr> <tr style="border-top:1px solid #f5f5f5"> <td>8</td> <td> <a href="/Production/4677" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(151,0,51)" title="Credits 22 persons and/or companies">Dylan</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left">02/07/1972</td> <td style="text-align:left">03/19/1972</td> </tr> <tr style="border-top:1px solid #f5f5f5"> <td>9</td> <td> <a href="/Production/2963" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(151,0,51)" title="Credits 31 persons and/or companies">Love Me, Love My Children</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left">11/03/1971</td> <td style="text-align:left">04/23/1972</td> </tr> <tr style="border-top:1px solid #f5f5f5"> <td>10</td> <td> <a href="/Production/3025" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(151,0,51)" title="Changed theatres 1 time Credits 29 persons and/or companies">The Proposition</a><sup>2</sup> </td> <td style="text-align:left">04/28/1971</td> <td style="text-align:left">08/03/1973</td> </tr> <tr style="border-top:1px solid #f5f5f5"> <td>11</td> <td> <a href="/Production/3018" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(151,0,51)" title="Changed theatres 1 time Credits 67 persons and/or companies">One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</a><sup>3</sup> </td> <td style="text-align:left">03/23/1971</td> <td style="text-align:left">08/03/1973</td> </tr> <tr style="border-top:1px solid #f5f5f5"> <td>12</td> <td> <a href="/Production/3219" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(151,0,51)" title="Credits 16 persons and/or companies">Candaules Commissioner</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left">05/28/1970</td> <td style="text-align:left">05/31/1970</td> </tr> <tr style="border-top:1px solid #f5f5f5"> <td>13</td> <td> <a href="/Production/3203" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(151,0,51)" title="Credits 23 persons and/or companies">The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left">04/07/1970</td> <td style="text-align:left">05/14/1972</td> </tr> <tr style="border-top:1px solid #f5f5f5"> <td>14</td> <td> <a href="/Production/3202" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(151,0,51)" title="Credits 35 persons and/or companies">Dark of the Moon</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left">04/03/1970</td> <td style="text-align:left">06/14/1970</td> </tr> <tr style="border-top:1px solid #f5f5f5"> <td>15</td> <td> <a href="/Production/3189" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(151,0,51)" title="Credits 21 persons and/or companies">Exchange</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left">02/08/1970</td> <td style="text-align:left">02/08/1970</td> </tr> <tr style="border-top:1px solid #f5f5f5"> <td>16</td> <td> <a href="/Production/3182" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(151,0,51)" title="Credits 19 persons and/or companies">Love and Maple Syrup</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left">01/07/1970</td> <td style="text-align:left">01/18/1970</td> </tr> </table> <div style="width:24%"> <hr style="background-color:silver; border:0; height:1px" /> </div> <div style="text-indent:-9px; margin-left:9px"><sup>1</sup>Original closing date, 04/13/1975, however run ended due to collapse of Mercer Arts Center. The show was transferred Off-Off Broadway to Plaza 9 in the Plaza Hotel.</div><div style="text-indent:-9px; margin-left:9px"><sup>2</sup>Run ended due to collapse of Mercer Arts Center.</div><div style="text-indent:-9px; margin-left:9px"><sup>3</sup>This production played at the Mercer- Hansberry Theatre at the Mercer Arts Center. The collapse of a nearby hotel on August 3, 1973 forced the production to relocate to the Eastside Playhouse on Tuesday, August 14, 1973. There it stayed throughout the remainder of the run.</div></div></div> <div class="iobdb-frame" style="border-radius:13px; box-shadow:10px 10px 5px #CCCCCC"> <div class="iobdb-legend" style="border-radius:25px; background-color:rgb(0,0,156)"> <span id="History">History</span> <h2 hidden>History</h2> </div><div class="iobdb-body" > <table> <tr> <td>"The Mercer Arts Center which Gene Frankel founded in conjunction with Viveca Lindfors, Rip Torn, Steina and Woedy Vasulka and others fell upon itself on Aug. 4, 1973. This was the day Frankel's production of Peter Swet's "The Interview" was supposed to open. The Mercer Arts Center, heralded as "the Lincoln Center of Off-Broadway " housed six theatres, two acting workshops and a rock club, all of which were designed to nurture budding talent. The Center's structural collapse ended the 1,OOO- performance run of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Both that show and "The Interview" found new venues, but the Mercer Arts Center was never restored and its like has not been seen since." - Peter Shaughnessy "Fifty Years For Frankel"</td> </tr> </table> </div></div> </section> </div> <footer style="height:60px"> <div class="content-wrapper" style="color:gray"> <div class="float-left"> <p> <a href="/TermsOfUse" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a><br /> <a href="/PrivacyStatement" target="_blank">Privacy Statement</a> </p> </div> <div class="float-right"> <p> ©2025 Lucille Lortel Foundation. 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