Posted
11:07 PM
by Gene
Remember Gen. MacArthur's line, "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away"? Well, old Broadway musical bombs never die;
they just go on the road and live forever.
By the way, is
Seussical a "muze-ical" or a "muse-ical?" Whatever it is -- and I doubt that it's either -- it just played here in Philadelphia at the Merriam, the old Shubert, where
Kiss Me, Kate had its tryouts. What a comedown. (Another example of how our culture's improved. Once we got Broadway tryouts, now we get a bus-and-truck production of
Saturday Night Fever, a bus-and-truck production of
The Full Monty, a bus-and-truck production of
South Pacific -- with Robert
Goulet, a bus-and-truck production of....)