By: Paulanne Simmons October 28, 2019: These days when musicals routinely explore questions of race, gender and politics, a highly entertaining but completely frivolous one like Cole Porter's Panama Hattie may come as a welcome relief. Originally produced in 1940, with a book by Herbert Fields and B.G. DeSylva, the show was conceived as a vehicle for Ethel Merman, who played the eponymous American singer working…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:20AM on October 28, 2019