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Word: bookform (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Comden and Adolph Green) is a sort of part-time musical made from a book (Say, Darling) that described how a big-time musical was made from a book (7? Cents). This carrying The Pajama Game into extra innings works out fairly agreeably on the whole. Compared to its bookform pokes at show business, Say, Darling is now using a softball. But as a popular-entertainment monkeyshine on the making of musicals, and as the decidedly unspiritual autobiography of a fledgling librettist, the show bumps and bounces along cheerfully enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 14, 1958 | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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