Lolita (play)

"[2] The full text of Albee's adaptation of Lolita, with copyright dates of 1979, 1980, and 1984, was published in the third volume of his collected plays.

In his introduction he noted, "no one who saw the execrable production the play received on Broadway could penetrate through it to the homage I was paying Nabokov.

"[3] Frank Rich in his New York Times review wondered why the play even opened after "weeks of delays" as it was "the kind of embarrassment that audiences do not quickly forget or forgive."

"[4] Ten years earlier, John Barry and Alan Jay Lerner's musical Lolita, My Love had bombed, closing during tryouts in Boston.

"In the title role, here a minor figure, the 24-year-old Miss Baker does a clever job of impersonating the downy nymphet; she deserves a more substantial stage vehicle soon."