Atlantic overtures: The American musical is alive and well in london. (Critic's Notebook).
American Theatre, March, 2002 by Wolf, Matt
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LONDON: What does it to say about the shape of things (to steal a recent play title from Neil LaBute) when it's Britain's Royal National Theatre that we have to thank for providing consistently interesting takes on the classic American musical? For years the words "musical" and "National" were unlikely to be joined in the same sentence.
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In 1982, however, Richard Eyre risked a South Bank mounting of Guys and Dolls--a Frank Loesser musical glory that no less a National icon than Laurence Olivier had once hoped to produce--and by the time it was revived preceding ...
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