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re: Which was the toughest competitive year for Best Musical?

Posted by:	keikekaze 12:37 am EST 01/17/14
In reply to:	re: Which was the toughest competitive year for Best Musical? - Chazwaza 07:10 pm EST 01/16/14

I think Little Me is a better musical than meets the eye in revivals. They keep monkeying around with it in revivals--and messing it up in the casting (dividing up Caesar's roles or casting only one Belle Poitrine, or both) or in coarsening the book. But they do keep reviving it, because as it was originally written and staged, it was a very good musical, besides being a very funny show (in that anything-for-a-laugh Producers/Spamalot/BOM manner). If only they'd revive it instead of trying to revise it! And, of course, you need a brilliant comic in the Caesar roles--not merely an actor (or two) who can be amusing.

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