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"Setting: A rehabilitation center for juvenille narcotics addicts
located on an island in a river bordering on a large industrial city."*
*Internet Broadway Database
Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, written by Don Petersen
and directed by Michael Schultz, opened on February 25, 1969 at
the Belasco Theatre in New York City and ran for only 39 performances, closing on March 29, 1969, but garnered Al
Pacino a Tony Award for his performance.
Opening Night Cast: Michael Brandon (Prince); Bob Christian (Deek); Laura Figueroa (Marietta); Hal
Holbrook (Mr. Winters); Lauren Jones (Linda); Catita
Lord (Rita); David Opatoshu (Dr. Werner); Al Pacino
(Bickham); Jose Perez (Ponti); Lazaro Perez (Tonto);
Jon Richards (Mr. O'Malley); Roger Robinson (Conrad);
Kenneth Rosaly (Hugo); Bruce Scott (Fullendorf); Hector Troy (Raul); M. Emmet Walsh (Ringo).
 "With sunny patience, Holbrook plays an English teacher in this
rehabilitation center, which is really a prison for young junkies, male and female and black and white.
"Pacino portrays the most evil of the students - a fidgety, cocky monster if you ever saw
one, and he has little chance of being 'cured' and winning a release. The most tense moments in Tiger come
when Pacino visits the establishment's psychiatrist, David Opatashu, and vilifies and threatens this essentially gentle man.
"But the doctor persists until the young inmate tells of a sordid family
life and how, after many years, he traced down his father in a barber shop and beat him - perhaps to death...."*
*The Internet Theatre Bookshop
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