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  1. 2022 Off-West End. 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 ...

    • Arthur Laurents
    • 1964
  2. When water suddenly springs from a rock, Cora sets her sights on making money from pilgrims desperate to receive the healing waters. But when Nurse Fay Apple, the dedicated and skeptical nurse of the local insane asylum, brings her patients to the so-called miracle, Cora’s plans are threatened and she turns to psychiatrist J. Bowden Hapgood ...

  3. Aug 15, 2020 · Music and Lyrics: Stephen SondheimBook: Arthur LaurentsNarrator: Angela Lansbury Cora Hoover Hooper: Madeline KahnFay Apple: Bernadette Peters J. Bowden Hapg...

    • 129 min
    • 11.9K
    • bia
  4. Anyone Can Whistle offers a message about the importance of the individual in a conformist society—while taking pot shots at government, religion, science and anything else in the way. The show’s chaotic, disjointed, absurdist story, more satirical social commentary than mainstream entertainment, had in just nine performances, the briefest ...

  5. Anyone Can Whistle. Revised Version (2004) Society, government and religion are lampooned in this unconventional satire of small town life. Anyone Can Whistle, an absurdist social satire about insanity and conformity (among a dozen other things) is probably the bravest show that Stephen Sondheim wrote, at least until Assassins. A legendary cult ...

  6. Feb 19, 2021 · A new recording of “Anyone Can Whistle,” the 1964 musical by Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, has for decades been on the wish lists of Broadway cultists and completists.

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  8. Apr 6, 2022 · However, London’s first Sondheim musical since the composer’s death in November is a show that not only got away but stayed there: Anyone Can Whistle, pulled after nine Broadway performances ...

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