Word: boucicault
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...distinctive half of The Streets of New York comes from an able, well-drilled cast and a smart-looking professional production. The musical, lifted from a 19th century plotboiler by Dion Boucicault, revolves around a dastardly banker, and the evening would be more sappy than happy if it were not for the wittily euphonious lyrics of Barry Alan Grael and unforced melodies of Richard Chodosh...
...STREETS OF NEW YORK blinks rather amusingly through the crocodile tears of Dion Boucicault's 19th century melodrama. The singing voices in this lively musical have near-perfect pitch, and the spoofing is stylish...
...STREETS OF NEW YORK blinks rather amusingly through the crocodile tears of Dion Boucicault's 19th century melodrama. The singing voices in this lively musical have near-perfect pitch, and the spoofing is stylish...
...STREETS OF NEW YORK smiles through the tears in this musical adaptation of one of 19th century Dramatist Dion Boucicault's marshmelodramas about a mortgage-foreclosing cad of a banker. In a properly silly mood, a playgoer can bear with the ancient corn and relish the singing and miming of a stylishly spoofy cast...
...James Matthew Barrie's Peter Pan, originally produced in London in 1904 with the late Nina Boucicault as the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, ran for 145 performances. The play has been revived in London every Christmas season since, except in the blitz years of '40 and '41. On Broadway, Maude Adams played Peter over 300 times between 1905 and 1916. Marilyn Miller and Eva Le Gallienne had flings at revivals in the '20s and '30s. Last week, the current Broadway production, with Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, played its 238th performance, setting...