Theater
August, 1961
The Happiest Girl in the World is a mildly naughty musical that milks the ages for material, from the Nineteenth Century Gallic melodies of Offenbach to Lysistrata, Aristophanes' bawdy broadside against war. The songs, culled from The Tales of Hoffmann, La Perichole and a batch of other operettas, retain amazing vitality and charm, and E. Y. Harburg has furnished them with bright new lyrics. But the story of the Athenian matrons who denied their husbands the rights of the boudoir until they call...
