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...JOEY...
Some shows have such vividly defined personalities that they defy any flaws in production. Pal Joey is that kind of show. This revival at Manhattan's Circle in the Square/Joseph E. Levine Theater certainly has its flaws; yet it remains an irresistible delight with enormous verve, raffish insouciance and a musk of cynicism that somehow has the allure of perfume...
Brechtian Book. Still, in this disastrous season for musicals, the lesson of Pal Joey is clear - the book's the thing...
Musical comedies ignore that fact at their peril. John O'Hara's book has the spine of a skyscraper, with big-city sleaziness reflected in every panel of the glass-curtain wall. This is a Brechtian book in which a small-time heel, Joey (Christopher Chadman), with his naive boasts and shameless buttering-up, is letched onto by a rich, man-eating tigress named Vera (Joan Copeland), who loves him enough to stake him to a night club, but who coolly leaves him before he can leave...
...vignettes is called "The Great Filling Station Holdup." Before Dylan satirized outlaw myths in "Joey," Buffett was already sick of them--he sings about being an unwilling accomplice in a robbery that netted "fifteen dollars and a can of STP/A big ole jar of cashew nuts and a Japanese T.V." Then, while he and his buddy are getting drunk on the money, a sheriff comes, He roughed us, then he cuffed us, And he took us off to jail. No picture on a poster, no reward, and no bail...