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994 words, approx. 3 pages
 Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The story concerns a corrupt mayoress, an idealistic nurse, a man who may be a doctor, and various officials, patients and townspeople, all fighting... 
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 The Independent - London MUSICAL Anyone Can Whistle Covent Garden Festival
06/03/1997: 451 words, approx. 2 pages If everyone who claims to have seen the original 1964 run of Anyone Can Whistle really did attend, the show would have been a smash. It wasn't. Having written the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy and gone solo with words and music... summary from source:
The Independent - London Can anyone teach a robot how to wolf whistle?
05/30/1999: 724 words, approx. 2 pages SO, AUF WIEDERSEHEN, pet, to the wolf whistle and those low- slung, buttock-baring trousers. A new generation of robot builders is to herald the death of the traditional brickie. The robots will be able to climb the sides of buildings to connect the...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Richard Watts, Jr.
305 words, approx. 1 pages
High aim is always commendable in the theater, and there can be no doubt of the lofty and praiseworthy ambition of "Anyone Can Whistle." But some actual fulfillment must accompany the dream, and it seemed to me that the new musical comedy by Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim … was so ponderously heavy-handed and clumsily vague in its presentation of a somewhat obscure thesis that it could bring the entire idea of good intentions under suspicion…. Mr. Laurents, who wrote the bo... summary from source:
Critical Essay by John Chapman
261 words, approx. 1 pages
["Anyone Can Whistle"] is an unusual, far-out musical with a briskly syncopated score, educated lyrics, original and frisky dances, waltzing scenery and an imaginative story which the cast and I had to cope with rather strenuously. This book and the lack of a melody I could whistle impeded my enjoyment of the last two acts, which didn't quite fulfill the high promise of the joyously daffy first act.
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Critical Essay by Hobe Morrison
198 words, approx. 1 pages
Whatever it's supposed to be getting at, "Anyone Can Whistle" should have the distinction of not leaving audiences apathetic. If it isn't entertaining, it's at least apt to be irritating…. ["Anyone Can Whistle"] has a book by Arthur Laurents, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, in what's evidently meant to be a sort of song and dance theatre of the absurd….
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