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Anyone Can Whistle
Musical by Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents
Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.
Described as "a satire on conformity and the insanity of the so-called sane,"[1] the show tells a story of an economically depressed town whose corrupt mayor decides to create a fake miracle in order to attract tourists.
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The phony miracle draws the attention of an emotionally inhibited nurse, a crowd of inmates from a local asylum, and a doctor with secrets of his own.
Following a tryout period in Philadelphia, Anyone Can Whistle opened at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway on April 4, 1964.
The show received widely varied reviews (including negative notices from the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune),[2] and closed after a run of twelve previews and nine performances.[3] The show's original run marked the stage musical debut of Angela Lansbury.[4]