SCREWBALL MUSICAL HEAVEN When it opened on Broadway in 1978, On the Twentieth Century achieved the impossible. Cy Coleman's clever score"a beautiful pastiche of turn-of-the-century operetta and silent film scores with some added jazz and musical comedy bounce"collided on the tracks with Betty Comden and Adolph Green's delectably chewy lyrics and screwball script, resulting in […]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:33AM on May 24, 2016