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Article: A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING: CORNY, CLASSIC `STATE FAIR'
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- The Washington Post
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- August 30, 1995
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It's corny and quaint. Straight as an arrow and sentimental as all
get-out. So squeaky-clean that it makes "Guys and Dolls" and "Fiddler
on the Roof" look racy by comparison.
But gosh darn it, the newly minted production of Rodgers and
Hammerstein's "State Fair," which opened last night at Wolf Trap and
is most likely Broadway-bound, is surprisingly hard to resist.
The only musical that the beloved songwriting team penned directly
for the movies, "State Fair" was released 50 years ago this month to
a decidedly less jaded American public, and followed by a 1962 remake
starring Pat Boone. The plot -- a family of four's trip to the Iowa
State Fair results in blue ribbons for Ma's mincemeat and ...