Shall I strip?”Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAn unwelcome throwback to a best-forgotten era of sexist naughtiness? It is he who ends the first act with an anarchic, tear-down-the-house number devoted to the all-American properties of wood. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThat’s a paraphrase from a Porter song that is not in this show, but could well have been. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyA quick sampling of both: “You can make me sweetheart, but please don’t make me be good.” “I laid ’em in the aisles! Advertisement Continue reading the main storyWhat “The New Yorkers” celebrates above all are the hard-loving, hard-playing characters of its title.

Source: New York Times March 23, 2017 21:33 UTC