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Little Mary Sunshine is a musical that parodies old-fashioned operettas and musicals. The book, music, and lyrics are by Rick Besoyan . The original Off-Broadway production premiered November 18, 1959 at the Orpheum Theatre in New York City's East Village .
Chicago is a 1975 American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse.Set in Chicago in the Jazz Age, the musical is based on a 1926 play of the same title by Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes on which she reported.
The 1975 musical Chicago goes further and portrays the sob sister covering the main story, Mary Sunshine, as a pantomime dame—a man in drag waiting for acquittal so he can become their promoter. [citation needed] Decades later, sob sister journalism played a part in the Sam Sheppard murder trial. Advice columns, gossip sheets, and even soap ...
An Act II finale, titled Gems from Little Mary Sunshine, featured some of the themes later to form part of the famous musical. [1] Little Mary Sunshine opened Off-Broadway in 1959 and was primarily a takeoff of old-fashioned operetta. Besoyan won the 1959–1960 Vernon Rice Memorial Award for outstanding theatrical achievement.
Mary Lynn Rajskub (/ ˈ r aɪ s k ə b / [1]) is an American actress and comedian who is best known for portraying Chloe O'Brian in the action thriller series 24 and Gail the Snail in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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Abandoned by her drunken father after he beats her mother to death, 5-year-old Mary finds refuge in a car where she falls asleep. The car belongs to Bob Daley, a young man who has made the mistake of celebrating his engagement by getting drunk with his friends and then lying about it to Sylvia, his fiancée.
The article on Little Mary Sunshine (LMS) badly needs editing.This musical is a satire, but the article barely scratches the surface of this satire. Seven of the eight main characters allude to other characters from earlier operettas and musicals, yet the article fails to reveal this or to identify the earlier characters.