I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road
When Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford's musical I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road opened at the Public in 1978, the theater critics who reviewed it were hostile. (The enormously ironic exception was the typically cranky John Simon,who wrote one of the show's most effusive, supportive reviews.) Walter Kerr started his review of the show by complaining about how stupid and pointless that whole pesky wo…