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...reparations to African Americans if they fessed up about what their ancestors did to our ancestors," said Kingfish. "Brother White, didn't you calculate a couple of years ago that the due bill for slavery could be as much as $24 trillion? I sho' could use my share of dat...
...songs written in that Gershwin era as music by George, as Wilfrid Sheed observes in his piece "Setting the Standards" [MUSIC, Oct. 5], but no one could ever miss the unique alliterations of Ira Gershwin. Who else would ever come up with lines like "he made his home in dat fish's abdomen" and "maybe Tuesday will be my good news...
...time, a whole new generation of talent had broken into Gershwin's gold mine and was digging away merrily for songs like Stardust, Stormy Weather and Dancing in the Dark. Even established writers like Jerome Kern and Vincent Youmans began to swing a little with Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man and Time on My Hands, respectively. But no matter what anyone else did, Gershwin seemed to stay at least two moves ahead, causing Youmans reportedly to mutter "so the son of a bitch thought of it" every time Gershwin struck again...
...brah, so lemme show dese haoles how fo' speak pidgin," Jeff Hayashida (one of the emcees) begins. "If you don't know what pidgin is, it's kinda like everything I saying dat you don't understand...
...theater, the kind of absurd melodrama that makes the framing drama look great in comparison, and reaches its pinnacle of hilarity with Cap'n Andy's spirited one-man enactment of the denouement and the wonderful punchline: "Curtain! No refunds." And the irresistible swing of "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" will have you humming or whistling it before you exit the theater. No wonder that song, along with "Ol' Man River," keeps cropping up. This is assuredly a production that makes the most of the musical's best points...