11 December 1972: on the evidence of recent shows, the musical is in dead trouble: the more one watches dancers catapulting across the stage as if fired from a cannon and leading ladies baring their tonsils, the more one has the sensation of seeing cosmetics applied to a corpse Having seen no less than six musicals in the past month, I can stay my hand no longer. I have decided to write the show critics have long bee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AM on December 11, 2019