Word: whirligig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gold Coast whirligig is almost too good to be true for Tom and Donna Wigdahl. Tom owns an electrical contracting company in Elk Grove Village, Ill., and commutes during the November-May Florida season. They have "lots" of polo ponies and a three-bedroom villa at the P.B.P.C.C. "We've met lovely people from all over," says Donna. "From Colombia, Germany, Brazil. You don't talk about changing diapers. Between the wealth, the polo and the people, it's just been fantastic. It answers everything I want out of life. And here...
Everyone knows this plot, even if he has never seen 42nd Street in any form: how the little girl from the sticks goes on for a disabled star, saves a big musical, finds love and becomes a star herself. The little girl, this time around, is a whirligig newcomer named Wanda Richert; the laid-up star is Tammy Grimes, who puts over a song like a hybrid of Bea Lillie and Sergeant Bilko; and the hardbitten, long-suffering director is Jerry Orbach, who brings not only freshness but some unexpected bite into the show's title tune...