Tchin-Tchin is a 1962 play

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 written by Sidney Michaels

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Sidney Michaels was an American playwright best known for the early and mid 1960s works Tchin-Tchin, Dylan, and Ben Franklin in Paris.-External links:...

. It opened on Broadway

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 at the Plymouth Theatre, (later transferring to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre

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) on October 25, 1962 and closed on May 18, 1963 after 222 performances and 3 previews. Directed by Peter Glenville

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, the play starred Margaret Leighton and Anthony Quinn

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, and featured Charles Grodin

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. Arlene Francis

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 and Jack Klugman

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 took over the star roles for the last month of the run.

Tchin-Tchin received Tony Award

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nominations for Best Play, Best Actress in a Play (Leighton), Best Scenic Design, and Best Direction of a Play.

Time Magazine wrote: "Tchin-Tchin is magical. It is also fragile, but it is saved from wispiness by Leighton and Quinn. Excellence is an acting habit with Margaret Leighton, and her Pamela is expectably perfect. Anthony Quinn brings his subtlest gifts to Caesario, a character in whom anguish and sentiment sprout like city flowers between slabs of concrete."