Fifty years ago this week, “Buck White” opened, and very quickly closed. What does this footnote to theater history still have to tell us? [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] So, as the sportscaster Howard Cosell used to ask great boxers: What went wrong out there, champ? When the stage musical “Buck White” opened at the George Abbott Theater […]
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