A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD/ A NIGHT IN THE UKRAINE
Book and Lyrics by Dick Vosburgh
Music by Frank Lazarus
Directed and Choreographed by
Tommy Tune
One can almost hear Louella Parsons saying, "Hello to all of you from Haw-ley-wood." This saucy, stylish, frolicsomely funny show is an affectionate spoof of the golden age of the silver screen.
Act I is a takeoff on 1930s movie musicals. Using Grauman's Chinese Theater as aspic, it captures the clichés, the formulas, the juicily idiotic emotional punch lines of the period. Singing with slyly ironic comic abandon, Jeanette MacDonald (Peggy...
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