Folksy Funk

TITLE: FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE

AUTHOR: CLARKE PETERS, BASED ON MUSIC ASSOCIATED WITH JAZZMAN LOUIS JORDAN

WHERE: BROADWAY

THE BOTTOM LINE: The revue aims only to be peppy and likable, and it is.

IMPRESARIO CAMERON MACKINTOSH made his millions (150 or so of them, in dollar terms) producing musicals of high tech, high technique and high seriousness -- Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera and Cats. He was just out for a night on the town with friends in Britain when he saw a jumping, jiving cabaret revue. It could not have been further from Mackintosh's customary taste....

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