Posted
6:08 PM
by Gene
Back to one of my favorite subjects -- the death of the musical:
This guy -- what does he look like? WALTER WINCHELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! playing the piano? (although if you gave the guy a piece of music he'd do a story saying a politician was attempting to take over the world with an alien language.) No, it's supposed to be HOAGY CARMICHAEL, and he sings in
ANOTHER DEAD-MAN'S REVUE. With so many DEAD MEN writing musicals you wonder why Broadway's producers don't cast in CEMETERIES.
And the guy's name -- to add to the comedy -- is BILLY PHILADELPHIA. This might prompt W. C. Fields to remark, "On the whole, I'd rather be away from Philadelphia."
P. S. Playbill.com incorrectly gives the Web site of the theater where this masterpiece is running as "www.ngplayhouse.com." (The
link is correct.)