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The Band Wagon: Minnelli's musical is perfect curtain-raiser to theatre's return | Stage

Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, standout song numbers, a clever fusion of stage and cinema … that’s entertainment! ....

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The Band Wagon: Minnelli's musical is perfect curtain-raiser to theatre's return

The Band Wagon: Minnelli’s musical is perfect curtain-raiser to theatre’s return
Chris Wiegand
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Vincente Minnelli’s MGM musical The Band Wagon (1953) has terrific songs, including the celebratory That’s Entertainment!, and boasts some joyous choreography but one of my favourite scenes is downright funereal. An ashen-faced man staggers dazed from an auditorium, along with sombre ushers and horror-stricken theatregoers. They have just seen – and will never be able to unsee – the first tryout of an overblown Faust musical mangled by megalomaniac star and producer Jeffrey Cordova. The opening night party is a ghost town. Minnelli gives us a huge closeup of an egg to make it clear: this company has just laid one. ....

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