Completely agree with you. I saw the Encores presentation and have know the CD for years, and tin my opinion he problem is that the score is not in sync with the book (specially in the second act). It is wonderful Jerry Herman music, brassy, fun, and the book is trying to tell I more dramatic story. I feel Gower Champion was trying to do a 'serious' musical, and didn't completely have it in him. No that dissimilar of what happened with The Happy Time.
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