"Music and girls are the soul of musical comedy," one critic wrote, early in the 1940s. But this was the age that wanted more than melody and kickline form its musical shows. The form had been running on empty for too long, as a formula for the assembly of spare parts--star comics, generic love s...
I fell in love with the written words in this book, and then the characters, and finally the city. I'll never think of, or look at, NYC or it's inhabitants in quite the same way again. The ideas expressed by the narrator, snuck up on me and at the time, seemed so profound... '... we are in the...
From the late 1920s to late 1950s, the Broadway theatre was America's cultural epicenter. Television didn't exist and movies were novelties. Entertainment took the form of literature, music, and theatre. During this golden age of Broadway, actors and actresses became legends and starred in now cl...
Book: Arthur Laurents.Original Leads: Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, Harry Guardino. Director: Arthur Laurents.Billed variously as “a wild new musical,” “a musical fable” (like the authors’ Gypsy), and simply as “a new musical,” Anyone Can Whistle was originally to be called The Natives Are Restles...
3 THE ROCK PEOPLE IT IS A STATEMENT beyond contention that a young gay guy with Looks Control will be in possession of an etiquette, a lingo, and a major haircut: this is called a subculture. But only devotees of the most elect parish will know of such practices as birthday sex (in which your bud...
Virgil asked Dennis Savage. “Everybody else does.” “I don’t have a cabaret act, do I?” answered Dennis Savage, entering upon another coughing fit. “Some have cabaret acts,” said Cosgrove. “And some have bronchus.” “Bronchitis,” Dennis Savage corrected, for the hundredth time. “It’s nice when guys...