Back in 1931, when the firm Kaufman, Ryskind, Gershwin amp Gershwin had the novel idea to infuse that stodgy old musictheatre entertainment, the Broadway operetta, with the jauntiness of showtune and a chaotic mixture of comedic highbrow and lowbrow to tell the tale of an unqualified, but charismatic American politician who rides a wave of popular support for his questionable platform to the United States presidency,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34AM on November 7, 2017