The Goodbye Girl
He went on to direct and choreograph the 1970 Broadway musical "The Rothschilds", starring Hal Linden, and directed "The Goodbye Girl", with Bernadette Peters and Martin Short, a 1993 adaptation of the 1977 Neil Simon film that was his final Broadway play. Although he was nominated for a Tony Award for best director, reviews were mixed. In "The New York Times", Frank Rich wrote that "Kidd, who did much to define slam-bang Broadway and Hollywood musical-comedy style in the 1950s, directs "The Goodbye Girl" in a mechanical reduction of that style: Everything is fast, furious, loud and downstage center. Not that any director could overcome this musical's physical production."