The season for musicals was a good one. Fiorello,The Sound Of Music, and Bye Bye Birdie were the big hits, and Take Me Along was a most pleasant affair with a wonderful cast headed by Jackie Gleason, Walter Pidgeon, Eileen Herlie and Robert Morse.
The Girls Against The Boys was a loud, dull revue that even the talents of Bert Lahr and Nancy Walker could'nt save, and Saratoga and Greenwillow both offered some fine music by Harold A rlen and Frank Loesser respectivly, but were otherwise uneven and sometimes dull.
Christine, Happy Town and Beg, Borrow, Or Steal were as bad as can be, but the delightful Once Upon A Mattress moved uptown from Second Ave. and was just as good in it's new surroundings as it was downtown.
Off Broadway produced three musicals that are worth mentioning. The Fantasticks and Little Mary Sunshine became long running hits and Ernest In Love was a delightful adaptation of The Importance Of Being Ernest.
Finally, The Billy Barnes Revue, At The Drop Of A Hat, and A Thurber Carnival all proved that the revue format was alive and well and popular.
So, for an incurable theatre maniac, it was quite a season.
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