MACK & MABEL
Book by MICHAEL STEWART
Music and Lyrics by
JERRY HERMAN
Direction and Choreography by
GOWER CHAMPION
You can make people believe in the presence of an invisible being onstage say, Harvey the rabbitbut you cannot make people believe in invisible silent movies. The reason may be that no one has ever seen a 6-ft. rabbit, whereas almost everyone has seen some silent films. At any rate, this is the chief trouble that plagues Mack & Mabel. It is reduced to telling without effectively or plausibly showing.
The musical's promise was that it could conjure up the madcap mayhem of the Keystone Kops, the antic nostalgic...
