Acts And Entertainments
July, 1975
Who needs a star vehicle when you have a star like Bette Midler? Tacky, vulgar and spectacularly talented, she dominates a stage with sheer personality. After a year's absence, she is back on Broadway in a show of her own inspiration, Clams on the Half-Shell Revue, directed by Joe Layton. She makes the first of several blazingly theatrical entrances on the whole shell: A group of blacks on the levee suddenly stop singing Old Man River, absurdly wheel an enormous clam onstage and out pops The Div...
