Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...42nd Street Renewal...
Kenworthy put the third tally on the board in the 42nd minute...
...1970s were bitter years for the New York Public Library. Because of budget restraints, the main research library, housed in Carrère and Hastings' magnificent 1911 neoclassical palace at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, which once was open 87 hours a week, could afford to stay open only 43 hours. Rain was leaking through the roof and into the stacks, endangering a number of the library's 6.5 million volumes. New Yorkers looked upon the library, supported for eight decades by a combination of private philanthropy and tax dollars, as a shabby invalid. Even "Patience" and "Fortitude...
Whereas a more modern fable such as A Chorus Line bounces an agreeable score off an interesting and original view of backstage life. 42nd Street attempts no such creativity, in part because the book as well as the music is more than 50 years old. It takes on the by-now predictable story of starry eyed naive Peggy Sawyer coming from the rural hinterlands to make her mark in the flashy world of big city show business. After two hours she has risen from a chorus girl to the star of the show, maybe even falling in love...
...nostalgic penchant for traditional Broad way spectacles enchants you one can not do much better than 42nd Street. The music, the costumes, the story, and of course the tap-dancing is of the straight forward old-fashinoed make-them-leave-the-theatre-happy-and-humming type, it worked well enough during the Depression. And it provides a rather harmless evening of musical theatre...