In 1978, before the merger of show business and politics was complete, it was still possible to build a show with the shocking premise that a working-class actress with a body and a dream could seduce a military leader and an entire nation. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber — whose audacious, thrilling musical had a teenage version of your humble correspondent sitting, wide-eyed, in the balcony of London's Princ…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 12:57PM on September 20, 2013