Cole Porter's 'Red, Hot and Blue' Is 'De-Lovely' Until the Music Stops

“Red, Hot and Blue” contains a Cole Porter score that begs to be rediscovered. Originally a Broadway vehicle for Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope, Porter’s 1936 follow-up to “Anything Goes” is more or less that classic’s equal in many ways, similarly trafficking in standards (“It’s De-Lovely,” “Down in the Depths”), unknown ballads that could …

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