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Androcles at Last! by Peter Filichia

By Peter Filichia Do I hear a waltz? Of course I do. Isn't Androcles and the Lion by Richard Rodgers? And getting a song in three-quarter time is a given in any of the legendary composer's scores. Here in this 1967 TV musical, the waltz is the first song, just as it was in Jumbo, Carousel, Two by Two and Oklahoma! "Velvet Paws" happens after meek tailor Androcles removes a large, pain-inducing thorn from the paw of…

SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:01AM on May 13, 2014

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