Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-02-17
The Posing Show
The Posing Show
Time Heals the Heel
Hero Of Pal joey
AFinoncioI Failure Dozen Years Ago,
Musical Is Broodwoy's hottest Hit
By Joy cormody
tDfama Editor Of The Ssorl

NEW YORK.
There saying around fourth street. Of Broadway
that considering the of adaptations the
eater sooner Or later was bound to turn an old show into the
Unlike sayings this be correct.
The hottest musical in New York is pal joey" at the
roadhurst Theater and this lot more than can be said Tor
1T when opened New Yorks startled IL True
almost that time started Kelly his
eteoc career also got itself enormously talked about and
put bitter ballad two into the repositories uncounted bath.
room singers What 1t was not was success financially
oey atonemen u years later 50 sensational As in Heaven
than In redemption of a flock Of innocents.
The Wonder Of 1t Is Double Rich
kind of double-rich wonder is involved in the return Of
opal joey" OF composed delight the musicals
organic perfection the other that many including professional
critics failed to see this in 1940
Forytourth had nothing electrifytng
South Pacific much later work of Composer Richard Rodgers
opened
Apologits for their earlier misunderstanding of pal joey"
explain surprise They ready they
say, for musical play whose hero is hee.
Obviously everybody ready for him He is cheap
about him that the dramatic his
betters OTIaa who joey pages
AS ne sees it. it Is trade OF amps and trohops not exclusively
to be sure but sufficiently so to justify loud debunkng sna
No one ever wrote more acidly comic valentine
It's Revenge for Those MoudIin Movies
nation Of $50 million citizens nauseaed
by those large sentimental musicals which
to have been directed by George Jesse pal joey pure
penicilln.
Instead Of crowded with muling music
makers and weavers Of dreams offers not single sympahec
crawling female still interested enough to buy her into the
sleazy life Of a young night club hoofer.
For the OF most people buying their into the
musical at the Broadhurst vven sega turning this morally
interesting Broadway.
Miss Sega played the original role and prove
richer mistress of it than she then 1t reflection
Harold Lang Gene Keys replacement the title
6ega takes pal joey almost completely whenever
steps the stage.
The irresistible magic pal joey" reason for
seeing It, Oaras Segas stunning
performance however.
This to be found in the musical created Composer
Rodgers and his then cit the Rodgers
virtually taken music in America in the last decade but
than pal joey" Write Book" "Bewtched Bothered
and Bewidered" what Is THAT Rainbow"
I'm Our Little Den Happy Hunting every
number in the show is close to perfection modern
can get. 49,
Atoms Dances Even Better This Time .st~4 s.v5a J.
Robert Alton who directed the dances original pro-
ducion far ADLER that today than IL
The mpectons OF night club dancing
revealed with such classical perfection danced with such
fenzied Moreover they danced by Of the
enticing choruses collected in long time.
Behind Miss Sega and Lang, Alton with
cast Helen Gallagher is the ideal
of Gladys the dancing girl who got Norhrup
vastly amusing the sob sister Lionel Sander
could not be improved the loaesome makes
backmal big dirty business.
Oliver Smith, settings, Miles White
elaborated to make the show brilliantly eye-appeaing
When Jules Styne first mentioned revyng joey" year
of his best friends suggested
they think they