Review: LI'L ABNER by David Fuller
Li'l Abner, a musical based on the comic strip characters created by Al Capp that was a hit in 1956, is being given a cute dust-off by Musicals Tonight!, Mel Miller's off-off-Broadway sibling of the Broadway Encores series, that has been reviving lost musicals in staged readings since 1998. Very much a product of its time, Li'l Abner is an Eisenhower Era gentle political satire that resonates somewhat to the 21st Cen…