Word: misters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Call Me Mister," six months and a road company away from its Broadway opening, is still a great show. Harold Rome's music and lyrics, particularly "The Red Ball Express" and "Military Life," and most emphatically "South America Take It Away," have managed to outlast the combined kiss of death of the radio and juke box, while the entire east is only a shade or two below the group which has made "Call Me Mister" the best musical in New York...
Surprisingly enough for a musical, "Call Me Mister" has serious overtones. In one brief scene outside a trucking employment agency, where five men, including two Negroes, are remembering with pride their work together on the Red Ball Express, the whole problem of the Negro in America is pointed up by the ironic ending when only the three white men are hired for the civilian trucking job. And again, the Southern Senator sequence is not only good burlesque, but a serious commentary on bigotry and the unprincipled use of the veteran vote in America...
...Call Me Mister. Gay revue in which quondam G.I.s say goodbye to service days and hello to civilian life (TIME, April...
Another "gratefully ectomorphic undergraduate" made it clear that the only thing for a matrimonially-inclined female to do was disregard the song sad strictly "mess with Mister In-between," when he launched the following poetic trade against the mesomorph...
...Mister...