{+Kismet} is one of those shows that succeeds in spite of itself -- even in the musical's original incarnation during the early '50s, it seemed kitschy and unwieldy, and only a newspaper strike prevented negative reviews from staking it out to a quick death; it lasted long enough to attract the attention of MGM in Hollywood, where Vincente Minnelli (with a little help from Stanley Donen) turned out one of his least interesting musicals based on it. What makes the piece work, whether on stage...   [ read more ]

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