Critical Response
Clive Barnes in his 1969 New York Times review wrote that "the humor is so doggedly sophomoric and soporific", adding "The failure here is almost exclusively a failure of the writers and the producers. The director, Jacques Levy, has done his best with the weak material at hand...the nude scenes, while derivative, are attractive enough. The best effects--including the rather sweet grope-in immediately after the intermission--have been taken from Robert Joffrey's ballet "Astarte," and the show uses the same projected media designers...In sum, "Oh! Calcutta!" is likely to disappoint different people in different ways, but disappointment is the order of the night."
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