The economy is good. Extravagant spenders are spending extravagantly.
Debutante balls are back.
Big weddings, never really out, are bigger than ever. And so . . . They've moved to another glamorous neighborhood, Oyster Bay, but the story is basically the same. After all this High Society is a Broadway Musical and its real claim to musical revival worthiness is the music of the great Cole Porter which besides the movie tunes includes a number of additions from other Porter musicals. In this current patchwork of Barry's play and cherry picked selections from the Porter's ouevre Burns Mantle's comment applies to Melissa Errico, the star, and practically everyone else behind and on the stage.