Witty seventies play set in a steambath with God portrayed as a Puerto Rican attendant features a pair of gay lovers who do a marvelous rendition of “Let Me Entertain You” from Gypsy.
Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman’s razor-sharp and still outrageous comedy portrays God as an overworked steambath attendant who doles out “wrath” and “blessed events” (including giving Debbie Reynolds an ear infection) to a machine in between assignments of scrubbing floors and walls. Bill Bixby and Valerie Perrine star, along with Jose Perez, as the wisecracking, blasé, card-trick-playing Lord, who watches while a collection of assorted types – a juvenile delinquent, an old time seaman, a naked ingénue, a Jewish guy nurtured on 30’s culture, a pair of campy gay men, and a gambler addicted to the stock market – sit amidst the sweat and mist seemingly uncertain of exactly why they are there. Wonderfully campy, witty and wise – a stretch for these television actors, but they make the grade.
↺Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman’s razor-sharp and still outrageous comedy portrays God as an overworked steambath attendant who doles out “wrath” and “blessed events” (including giving Debbie Reynolds an ear infection) to a machine in between assignments of scrubbing floors and walls. Bill Bixby and Valerie Perrine star, along with Jose Perez, as the wisecracking, blasé, card-trick-playing Lord, who watches while a collection of assorted types – a juvenile delinquent, an old time seaman, a naked ingénue, a Jewish guy nurtured on 30’s culture, a pair of campy gay men, and a gambler addicted to the stock market – sit amidst the sweat and mist seemingly uncertain of exactly why they are there. Wonderfully campy, witty and wise – a stretch for these television actors, but they make the grade.
INFO:
ORIGINAL TITLE: Steambath
ALSO KNOWN AS: The Shvitz
YEAR: 1973
DIRECTOR: Burt Brinckerhoff
RUNTIME: 90 min
COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: English
CAST: Bill Bixby, Valerie Perrine, Jose Perez, Herb Edelman
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