declared that was "a metaphor for America in the summer of 1963 – orderly, prosperous, bursting with good intentions, a sort of Yiddish-inflected Camelot." As a West End theatre production, it is much the same but with a certain sense of nostalgia that can be felt only from crossing the threshold of the new millennium. It is a reminder of the cultural reset the film created, becoming the first film to sell more than a million copies for home video, and how much theatre needs this right now.
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