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Article: Wholesome, entertaining trip to the `State Fair'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 9, 1995
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STATE FAIR
By Rodgers & Hammerstein. Book by Tom Briggs and Louis
Mattioli, sets by James Leonard Joy, costumes by Michael
Bottari and Ronald Case, lighting by Natasha Katz,
choreography by Randy Skinner. Directed by James
Hammerstein and Randy Skinner
At: The Wang Center, last night (runs through November 12)
"State Fair" is as corny as Iowa in August, which is just how
Rodgers and Hammerstein meant it to be.
"State Fair" started off as a novel, then a film; it became a
movie musical in 1946 which was remade in 1962 (celebrated at the