'Dames at Sea' review: One-joke show sinks, 47 years later

"Dames at Sea" has arrived on Broadway 47 years after its Off-Broadway premiere introduced a dynamite kewpie doll named Bernadette Peters to a grateful world. The show, a vest-pocket spoof of '30s Busby Berkeley spectaculars, was meant from the start to be a nonstop show-biz cliche with songs intended to sound like songs everyone already knew from old Ruby Keeler/Dick Powell movies.

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