Word: laguardia
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Fiorello! is based on the early career of Fiorello H. LaGuardia up to the start of his successful campaign for mayor of New York City in 1933. His biography is a mere thread of a plot to connect a series of vignettes about fun-loving politicians in the 1920s. In addition to being the best-written parts of the show, these vignettes are irresistable in the way they seem also to satirize recent events. The claims of Tammany officials that they afforded various luxuries on their comparatively modest salaries by saving the pennies earned by, for example, returning empty milk...
...success of the show lies mainly in the casting, which resulted in many first-rate individual performances. In particular, David Cohen as the long-suffering Morris, LaGuardia's right hand man, and Paul Hewitt as Ben, the slick local party leader, rate gold stars for both their singing and acting performances. Steffi Sackman is a pert and lovable Dora, and Greg Minahan is properly earnest as Neil, the young law clerk. There is not a single really bad performance, and where the acting is weak, the problem is usually the book as much as it is the actor...
Fiorello! is pretty appropriate for election week, being a musical about New York's great Depression-era mayor, Fiorello H. LaGuardia. LaGuardia, it was said, with an Italian father and a Jewish mother, was a balanced ticket in himself; he was so popular he said of the party hacks "I could run on a laundry ticket and beat those political bums." He loved little children and the Fire Department and is chiefly remembered, in New York, for reading the funnies over the radio during a newspaper strike. But the musical isn't nearly as colorful or interesting...
...YORK CITY is well known for its long and sensational political history -- Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall, "handsome" Jimmy Walker, Fiorello LaGuardia, William O'Dwyer, etc. The Big Apple is jammed with warring factions: reformers fight reformers and bosses battle bosses. Unlike Chicago, where one man has ruled with supreme authority for two decades, New York is the scene of constantly shifting alliances and a frantic scramble for power and patronage...
...read the magazines, leafed through a photo history of the Clinic, "Monsey Medical Center was founded in...And here is our driver. He transports patients to and from LaGuardia Airport." The picture of the driver was missing. His bus was there, but he was gone. "Probably wrecked," thought he. There was a poster on the wall; it read, "Would you be more careful, if it happened to you?" It had a picture of a young man above the caption, his shirt stuffed with pillows. Thought he, "What can one expect from doctors who look between women's legs...