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...distinctive half of The Streets of New York comes from an able, well-drilled cast and a smart-looking professional production. The musical, lifted from a 19th century plotboiler by Dion Boucicault, revolves around a dastardly banker, and the evening would be more sappy than happy if it were not for the wittily euphonious lyrics of Barry Alan Grael and unforced melodies of Richard Chodosh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Off-Broadway, By Halves | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...STREETS OF NEW YORK blinks rather amusingly through the crocodile tears of Dion Boucicault's 19th century melodrama. The singing voices in this lively musical have near-perfect pitch, and the spoofing is stylish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 13, 1963 | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

...STREETS OF NEW YORK blinks rather amusingly through the crocodile tears of Dion Boucicault's 19th century melodrama. The singing voices in this lively musical have near-perfect pitch, and the spoofing is stylish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 6, 1963 | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...STREETS OF NEW YORK smiles through the tears in this musical adaptation of one of 19th century Dramatist Dion Boucicault's marshmelodramas about a mortgage-foreclosing cad of a banker. In a properly silly mood, a playgoer can bear with the ancient corn and relish the singing and miming of a stylishly spoofy cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 15, 1963 | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

What's wrong with Dion? He is anything but pathetic looking, and saying that he has a little voice is like saying President Kennedy is bald. Dion has everything a rock-'n'-roll singer needs, especially hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 29, 1963 | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

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