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...Ira E. Stoll contributed to the reporting ofthis article...
AUTHOR: MUSIC BY GEORGE GERSHWIN; LYRICS BY IRA GERSHWIN; BOOK BY GEORGE S. KAUFMAN AND MORRIE RYSKIND...
Arena Stage, the leading theater in the nation's capital, plainly doesn't think so. Nor do audiences for its zesty production: they find startling topicality in gibes that weren't born yesterday. Says artistic director Douglas Wager: "Apart from revisiting the librettists' first draft and incorporating some of Ira Gershwin's alternate lyrics, we haven't updated a thing. We haven't had to." The librettists were Morrie Ryskind and, ironically, Kaufman, who despite his woes with satire kept at it anyway. The humor is neither as rich nor as heartfelt as in his You Can't Take...
Tommy's is also a haven for staff writers of The Crimson, according to Ira E. Stoll '94. Tommy's is at one end of The Crimson's "bipolar axis" extending from the building at 14 Plympton St., he says; the Hong Kong is at the other...
...Ira E. Stoll and Gady A. Epstein contributedto the reporting of this story...