A Sondheim Tribute to Politics and Other Craziness
Ben BrantleyApril 10, 2010: It’s not as if New York hasn’t known its share of power-addicted, egomaniac mayors. But there’s something special about Cora Hoover Hooper, the impeccably coiffed basket case who runs the broken-down little town in “Anyone Can Whistle,” Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’s muddled musical from 1964, which is stylishly exploring its own identity crisis at City Center this weekend.
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