6 SENSATIONAL SHOWS ON BROADWAY

摘要

Poking fun at corny old musicals is such a corny old device by now that your defenses are up from the outset of this spoofy musical. Then its cheery, self-mocking inventiveness wins you over. A lonely-guy theater buff (played by co-writer Bob Martin) puts on his LP of a fictional 1928 musical, and, faster than you can say Flo Ziegfeld, it materializes in his apartment. There's a Broadway diva, a scheming producer, gooey love songs and stock comic sidekicks. Best of all, there's the sensational Button Foster, who, in one knockout number, spins plates, does cartwheels and pulls out every other stop just to prove, as she sings, "I don't wanna show off."