WAY OFF BROADWAY: A Star Is Born

There is no plot to speak of. The songs are derivative, and the star is a talking 1960 model automobile without driver that revs its engine and blows its horn at the sight of a pretty girl. The show has all the aroma of an hour-and-a-quarter commercial. In fact, that is precisely what it is. But by the time it finishes its 48-day, eight-city, coast-to-coast tour next month, Buick '60, Buick's slick, sales-gimmick musical, will have run up a road record that few Broadway hits can approach: almost every performance a hot-ticket,...

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