Look what happened to “Mabel”
Time heals almost everything, as Jerry Herman’s best score is stylishly resurrected.
3 pieces since 2017 — at 1 company, most often at Encores!.
Time heals almost everything, as Jerry Herman’s best score is stylishly resurrected.
Even the hit songs in this early Jule Styne musical would recede in a better show.
The cultiest of cult musicals, an All-American take on the Iliad and the Odyssey, the spectacularly witty Golden Apple of John Latouche (words) and Jerome Moross (music), opened Off Broadway in 1953 to some acclaim.
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