How much can an anti-hero get away with in a financially successful musical? The onstage Harry Bogen was guilted out of his worst act in the source novel but his victims were more sympathetic than those of J. P. Finch or Pal Joey.
Regardless, Harry Bogen is not the one folks remember from Wholesale today:
The evening’s find is Barbara Streisand, a girl with an
oafish expression, a loud irascible voice and an arpeggiated laugh. Miss Streisand
is a natural comedienne, and Mr. Rome has given her a brash, amusing song,
“Miss Marmelstein,” to lament her secretarial fate.
~ Howard Taubman. New York Times.
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