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42nd Street Moon hits the high seas with Coward's Sail Away by Chad Jones

Sail Away, the last musical for which the great Noël Coward wrote the whole shebang (book, music, lyrics), had two things going for it when it premiered on Broadway in 1961. First was the customary Coward wit, which shone in numbers like "The Passenger's Always Right" and "Why Do the Wrong People Travel?" And then there was the show's star, Elaine Stritch for whom Coward created the role of cruise hostess Mimi Par…

SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:16PM on November 1, 2015

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