The Other Anyone Can Whistle
On Wednesday, April 8, 1964, Variety told me that Anyone Can Whistle had opened the previous Saturday to three raves and three pans. I'd never seen such an extreme split from the New York newspaper critics. When I read that the Stephen Sondheim-Arthur Laurents musical would close on Saturday, I wasn't all that surprised; the nay-sayers wrote for the more important papers. Weeks later, I was in a record store with my …