Probably the strangest and least revivable Broadway genre is the midcentury hooker musical comedy. Shows like Irma La Douce (first produced in 1956), New Girl in Town (1957), and House of Flowers (1960), whatever their other merits, seem smarmy, or at best naïve, when seen from the other side of ... More »
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:00PM on November 20, 2016