Girls, Wouldn't We All Want To Look Like This???????????????

                            Imagine being a Thirties chorine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   What a dream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That outfit!  How I would love to wear it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                           Well, seeing The Narrow Community Players production of "42nd Street," on the Fort Hamilton Army Base, at the end of Bay Ridge, almost makes that dream come true.

                             The Players have done a remarkable job of giving lavishness to a musical on a budget unlike David Merrick's.  Yet all the big moments are there--the entire company singing "Lullaby Of Broadway," tenor Erech Holder-Hetmyer's extraordinary take on "Dames," and the famous "We're In The Money," with the dancers on giant coins! --not to mention a score the likes of which is virtually perfect.  How many times can one say that?????????????

                            Seeing this production of "42nd Street" was pure pleasure.  And I love the way the title song is performed, like a variation on "Slaughter On Tenth Avenue," with dancer Emma Kaufman, who plays fresh-faced ingenue Peggy Sawyer, doing some very Donna McKechnie moves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                             Narrows always puts care into its productions, but this one, with its score and lavishness, only raises the bar higher.

                              Could they be capable of doing "FOLLIES?????????????"

                               I would love to see them try!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!