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Café Society Swing, Leicester Square Theatre by Matthew Wright

Alex Webb's musical Café Society Swing, about a provocatively liberal Manhattan jazz club in the 1940s, made a much-anticipated return to the Leicester Square Theatre last night. With remarkable ingenuity and economy, Webb tells the story of the real Café Society, a radical and subversive multi-faceted entertainment venue, which on opening in December 1938 was the first non-segregated club in America. It soon court…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:58AM on June 18, 2014

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