The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Mar. 18, 1946

Three to Make Ready (music by Morgan Lewis; sketches and lyrics by Nancy Hamilton; produced by Stanley Gilkey and Barbara Payne) bobbed up, after a series of slithering musicomedies, as the season's first revue. But the change of pattern provided little change of luck. Despite having Dancer Ray Bolger (On Your Toes, By Jupiter), a star with about the nimblest feet in show business, Three to Make Ready slithers too. Its music is tepid and tacky. Most of its skits are not funny at all and the rest are not funny enough.

Bolger, to...

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