Last week, when I wrote about the cast album of Seven Come Eleven, I stressed its topicality. The 1961 nightclub revue mentioned The Peppermint Lounge, the Peace Corps, Mayor Wagner, civil rights, mononucleosis, The John Birch Society " all names that were then making the news. Revues have often been considered as here-and-now entertainments, never meant to last for the long haul; thus, topical humor has always seem…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:43AM on July 23, 2013