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Indulge your friend Bernadette a little and hear it again.
She will deliver on the plaintive shattered-glass reveries of Losing My Mind and Send in the Clowns.
She will bend over and toot a trumpet between her legs in You Gotta Get a Gimmick.
The baton passes, rather frenetically, to other standout friends, too.
Beth Leavel (remember how good she was inThe Prom?)
comes out in a big fur coat to lay down a furious Ladies Who Lunch.
Gavin Lee (he ofthe fancy footworkas Squidward) does a gender-bent Could I Leave You?
In a setting like this, you often think about the actors who originated these songs.
To bastardize the title song, damn few.
A hagiography may be deserved, but its not an interesting mode for a show to idle in forever.
Should we just reviveSweeney Toddagain?
Or wait, itll never make as much money as a revue, but lets doPassion.
Old Friendsis at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
