In NY: British Flops, Musicals Tops

British players and British players haven’t been doing well on Broadway this season. “The suspicion occurs that New York critics are tiring of British directors presuming to show them how great classics, and particularly American classics, ought to be staged.” But “the really good news in New York is that the renaissance of the home-grown Broadway musical is continuing apace, though it is odd that so many of them appear to be based on old movies.”