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...reveal a low-cut T shirt. Till now the boys in the back room are just nursing their beers, thinking about nothing, or trying to. But they see her, and all the windows steam up. She is the star of her own show, and she loves it. The jukebox gets her dancing, sexy, like on a runway. Pleasin' and teasin'. Hey, college boy, dance with me, closer than sweat. Give me a long, deep kiss...
Soft music played from the jukebox. Couples leaned in close, trying to hear each other over loud voices. Bogey's visage kept watch from posters around the room...
...Harry's Bar on the corner of Beach and Essex Streets, a group of bearded guys wearing flannel shirts sit around a circular bar listening to Motown from the Jukebox. One of them gets up, taps somebody on the shoulder and says, "Hey bud, you got a problem...
Elvis Presley throbs from the jukebox as bobby-soxed waiters and waitresses improvise dance steps between servings. A young business crowd samples such unautomated Automat classics as fish cakes, macaroni and cheese, and chicken pot pie, all of which, alas, pale beside memories of the originals. The menu also includes diet-destroying desserts like the $12.95 "Kitchen Sink" sundae. Dine-O-Mat's gravy has the consistency of fudge sauce, but the mashed potatoes are good, and the trip back in time is sustaining...
...first scene does little to change this impression. A flock of anachronistically granola-esque maidens meander, lamenting over their unrequited love for the poet Reginald Bunthorne. In the context of a set containing an enormous portrait of Elvis, a malt-shop sign and a jukebox, these sentiments seem better suited to tenth-grade teeny-boppers than seasoned literati. Moreover, the characters' "hip" enunciation of phrases like "they're so square" mix poorly with the original "prithee's." To cap it off, Colonel Calverly's (David Magill) patter song with the dragoons, although extremely well sung, is simply neither tuneful...