Theatre
January, 1961
Tenderloin is a big brash musical hit for no very good reason except size and Cecil Beaton's sets and costumes. Ordinarily, you would expect something a little niftier from the live-wire minds behind Fiorello! – producers Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince, director-writer George Abbott, collaborator Jerome Weidman. But with the exception of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, who have produced a charming score, all of them miss by a mile. The plot, based on the late Samuel Hopkins Adams' total...
