Bells Are Ringing
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Opened Apr 12, 2001
Closed Jun 10, 2001
Opened Apr 12, 2001
Closed Jun 10, 2001
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Long before there were answering machines, there were telephone answering services in which operators would give and take messages all day. Bells Are Ringing, the Comden-Green-Styne musical, focuses on Ella Peterson, one such operator. Ella has become a fixture in the lives of her hapless clients, including playwright Jeffrey Moss, who has just broken up with his writing partner and has no confidence to continue. Ella takes up the challenge of setting Moss on a course to success. This first-ever Broadway revival stars Faith Prince and Marc Kudisch as Ella and Jeffrey, and co-stars Beth Fowler and David Garrison.
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The equivalent of the show curtain for Tina Landau's revival of Bells Are Ringing has the musical's
title set within a loose silver outline meant to suggest a television screen. As the overture plays, newsreel footage is shown on the ersatz tube to ease the audience back five decades into a supposedly more innocent time when men still wore Stetsons on Manhattan streets, refrigerators were still advertised by smiling spokeswomen, Marlon Brando was still young and slim, and Marilyn Monroe was still impossibly nubile.
Unfortunately, the television conceit has another effect. It triggers thoughts of '50s sitcoms, all but declaring that the Bells are Ringing libretto is not much more t[...]