Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Thursday, August 18, 2005
In the ten years it took RICHARD RODGERS' GRANDSON to write the masterwork theater producers tend to admire more than hum, his GRANDFATHER and LORENZ HART could have written FORTY SHOWS. If it ever comes out this property will be a smash, not because it's any good -- it will probably be third-rate whimsy, or Camelot without melody -- but because of the abiding loyalty theaterfolk have that transcends mere considerations of quality (witness the raves for the GRANDSON's show and the SPELLING-BEE show), and besides, we need to fill up the rides in the theme park.
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