Show Business: The Fabulous Invalid's New Symptoms

A THEATER season is spoken of as an entity, but it nourishes some 100 unique possibilities, not excluding a happening like Jesus Christ Superstar. Here are some of the other 99 that will make up the 1971-72 record.

MUSICALS: The musical is peculiarly evocative of the U.S. spirit. With the popular yearning for a simpler past, the appetite for nostalgia came into being. It is represented this year by the revival of the 1944 show On the Town, with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music by Leonard Bernstein. No one...

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