'The Performers' Is an Embarrassment for All Concerned
Back in the 1960s, America’s sexual revolution and cultural turmoil spawned a subgenre of hopelessly square Broadway comedies that treated issues of sex and drugs with sniggering sitcom falsity. Some, such as “The Impossible Years,” were hits, but for the most part they flopped quickly (“Norman, Is That You?”) or even closed without opening (“The Freaking Out of Stephanie Blake&rdq…