Warning: Too Much Sugar in the Ghetto Leaves a Bad Taste ; First Night

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Imagine This New London Theatre

I AM afraid a bad-taste warning needs to be attached to this unfortunate new musical. The talented director, Timothy Sheader and his team of ardent, forceful actors and dancers are not to blame. They struggle valiantly to rise above the offensively banal, soft- pop music that limps in train with the fatuities and ineptitude of David Goldsmith's trivial lyrics. Glenn Berenbeim's book relates the heroic defiance of Jews against ancient Romans in Masada to those against the

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Warning: Too Much Sugar in the Ghetto Leaves a Bad Taste ; First Night

Nazis in Warsaw. But the closing number of Imagine This sprays the wasteland of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, from which thousands of starv...

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