'On the Town' review: A good-humored frolic
For reasons unknown, Broadway's latest revival of "On the Town" begins with the audience asked to stand and sing "The Star Spangled Banner" at a huge American-flag curtain. And, since we know that the 1944 sailors-in-New York musical-comedy classic is neither a show about baseball nor a patriotic anthem, we gird ourselves for some heavy-handed manipulation of a sweetly unassuming show with champion credentials.