::Harburg is well known as a left-leaning, at times satirical lyricist. Jamaica has a bitter twist - I think it is probably his most satirical musical - although I accept that all this is a bit POV. I'll concede that my original note, which more than hinted that the rather obvious link with the fact that he had just been booted out of Hollywood, where most of the money was at the time, and where he almost certainly would otherwise have stayed, WAS a little POVish. I still think that a brief mention of the fact that this musical was written immediately after the ban took effect is interesting background, and not in itself POV. Not worth wasting any more bile over though. 

 ::A 500 performance plus mucical used to be considered a hit. The Broadway musicals that exceeded the figure before this late fifties are quite a select band, in fact. I can't see why a brief reminder of that fact, especially in the case of such a largely forgotten show as this, is "irrelevant" - and its hardly POV in any case. On the other hand, again, I suppose it is not worth fighting over. 

 ::I would rather the fact that it is dated - which IS POV without some justification - either was eliminated altogether, or was clearly linked to the fact that the dating is MUSICAL rather than because of the lyrics. I don't think these are dated at all - in fact if anything they are before rather than behind the times (POV that, of course!!). 

 ::Sorry, but this is a charming little show, one of my favourites, - and I think it's rather sad that the "new" articlae, while in some ways more informative than my original - now misses the point a bit. POV is a difficult question. There is a grey area where an absense of any stated POV at all (especially when discussing a work of art that has a very marked POV of its own) is in fact unacceptable POV itself. NOT mentioning that a book, picture, or play has a strong left (or right) wing bias when it is VERY obvious that is has (e.g. not mntioning that Mein Kampf reeks of racism) can be a VERY powerful technique of implied endorsement of the ideas concerned. Nother "POV neutral" about that.