The Great White Way: Not an Escape Route from Politics
By:
Clay Waters
October 30, 2009 13:05 ET
Just to prove that no part of life is safe from
politicization, here's an excerpt from theatre critic Charles Isherwood’s embrace of “
Finian’s
Rainbow,” the surprisingly successful Broadway reprise of an old-fashioned musical:
The morning after seeing “Finian’s Rainbow,” you may well
find yourself shaking your head at the absurdities of the book by Mr. Harburg
and Fred Saidy, a tipsy jumble of romance, fantasy and satire. (Topics of
surprising renewed relevance: the seductions of living on easy credit, the
perils of foreclosure, the “misbegotten G.O.P.”)