On Jul 1, 3:06 pm, MaryLyon <MaryL...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I've always been aware of OTIS, but was not very familiar with it. I
> just purchased the 1952 Broadway cast album and am really enjoying it.
> I didn't imagine it was so cynical and so prescient about using the
> media to "sell" the president. I love it and am looking forward to
> additional listenings...
>
> A couple of questions:
>
> 1. On this album, "Garcon, S'il Vous Plait" begins with the famous
> lick from "An American in Paris" - is this reference in the original
> score, or unique to this production?
>
> 2. Does anyone ever do this show anymore? It seems like a natural
> suggestion to do in an election year, yet I've never known a theatre
> to do it.
>
> Any thoughts/insights/comments on this show would be greatly
> appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
> Cheers!
> Amy :)
The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players (I could have the name wrong
-- Al Bergeret's group at Symphony Space) did an excellent staging of
the piece (not a word updated AFAIK) in 1990, and Encores did it last
year or was it the year before? The resemblance to a New World G&S was
quite obvious, and it was just as sly and cute and welcome as G&S.
It's one of the few shows from that era that doesn't seem to date --
all hail Mr. Kaufman.
Jean Coeur de Lapin
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