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Whats the use of frivolity in an unstable time?
Zien provides all the Wiki-level historical context the inflation!
(Maybe its not Cole Porter, but a nice enough imitation.)
Sussman and Manilow hit at the situation but never quite get their heads around it.
Lets give em ambassadors.
But rote as that second act is, it arrives at the storys most compelling tension.
That may itself be due to another twist of historical timing.
The show basically a fable doesnt meet the moment as much as the moment crashes over it.
You may want to perform your little ditties and step to the side, but history will find you.
Harmonyis at the Ethel Barrymore Theater.
