“There has always been the kind of critic that views the musical as being the intellectual brothel. They can go and see the girls and the pretty legs; they don’t want to be bothered by the story. They don’t want to be asked to feel anything. They want to go and get their jollies.”

Alan Jay Lerner (quoted in Donald Knox, The Magic Factory)

“There has always been the kind of critic that views the musical as being the intellectual brothel. They can go and see the girls and the pretty legs; they don’t want to be bothered by the story. They don’t want to be asked to feel anything. They want to go and get their jollies.”

Alan Jay Lerner (quoted in Donald Knox, The Magic Factory)