As Broadway celebrates its return after a historic pandemic closure, offerings like this one beg the question: What exactly are we welcoming back?
Singing, dancing, pleasure. And the profits to be made from tempting tourists to Broadway from near and far.
The America of the musical owes a lot to Sinclair Lewis' jaundiced eye, or at least I've always thought so. Particularly, "Main Street" and "Elmer Gantry".
