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...THINK MUSICAL COMEDY. . .the most glorious words in the English language," crows Julian Marsh, the gruff but gentle caricature of a Broadway producer in 42nd Street. Believing that one of the most entertaining subjects to be made into musical theater is musical theater itself. David Merrick (a real-life Julian Marsh) has taken a 1930s musical, wrapped it in extravagant sets and costumes, revitalized extensive tap-dancing routines for the familiar score, and recreated what he modestly calls "the song and dance fable of Broadway." Indeed, Merrick has brought back the old-style high-kicking Broadway musical of elaborate production...
...starry eyed naive Peggy Sawyer coming from the rural hinterlands to make her mark in the flashy world of big city show business. After two hours she has risen from a chorus girl to the star of the show, maybe even falling in love on the way. After hearing Marsh utter such gems as, "Sawyer, you're going out there a young stand-in, but you have to come back a star," you realize this is not going to be a thought-provoking night of theater...
Reported by Marsh Clark/Dukwe, Botswana
...sometime, but certainly this was a bit Marsh...
...says the wily subteen, "is to accept a new can when anybody offers and let your old one get drunk by somebody else." He devises a successful "Boy Act," to unnerve and run off "coroners," his collective description for the boring men who come courting his mother, and the marsh teaches the need for patient observation: "If you go around beating the world with questions like a reporter or federal oral history junior sociologist ... all the answers will go back into mystery like fiddlers into pluff...