If there is a musical comedy masterpiece, it is Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, and Jo Swerling’s Guys and Dolls. Swerling and Burrows’book adapts Damon Runyon’s stories offunny, flavorful lowlifes with wit and zest. Loesser’s tasty lyrics and wonderful music are even better in the plot-oriented songs that have no life outside this show than the […]
Stratford
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Return to Stratford
The last three plays of Stratford’s opening week were less spectacular but more unusual than the opening three. Two are seldom seen onstage, and I wish I could say that about the third. Although the smaller musical’s title might evoke a show as lovable as The King and I, its French belle époque amorality comes […]
