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Newbold Morris, onetime president of the New York city council and close friend of the late Fiorello H. La Guardia, walked into the star's dressing room after a performance at Manhattan's Broadhurst Theater and said: "Mr. La Guardia, we met for the first time when you were elected mayor...
...American theater, Julie Harris, Geraldine Page and Kim Stanley have a brilliant new competitor. Such names as Hayes, Cornell and Fontanne ring distant on the ear-echoes from another generation. "We've come to the end of gracious ladies in the theater," says Producer Harold S. (Fiorello!) Prince. "Why, I don't know. But this girl Bancroft is the greatest there is. She marks the beginning...
...Fiorello! An uneven but lively and enjoyable musical that brings back an engagingly dynamic La Guardia and his gaudy, high-kicking era with a bang...
...befits an evening of fun, Fiorello! portrays a crusader without ever adopting the tone of a crusade. While pumping lead into ward politics and taking potshots at the Tammany wigwam, it pokes the right touch of fun at Fiorello's own brandished tomahawk. Winningly played by Tom Bosley, La Guardia proves the more engaging for not being too lovable, the more enlivening for not being too reasonable. And as a period piece that comes up with, among other things, battered Pathe news shots, Fiorello! often has an earned nostalgia...
Delightful at its best and generally fun, Fiorello! does have its weaknesses: a few flop songs and scenes, and a less lively second act. The show's chief liability is that bane of musicals, love, which-requited or unrequited-can seem banal. Even so, the show's chief asset. Director Abbott's testing everywhere for pace and pep, helps to shorten the doldrums. And for the evening as a whole, the reaction to the Abbott test is decidedly positive...