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| | CABARET: FRED BARTON - New York Times |
 | | Barton's musical investigation of the woman, played by Margaret Hamilton in the film ''The Wizard of Oz,'' who threatened to take Dorothy's dog away and, in the Land of Oz, became the wicked witch. |
 | | Barton describes her as ''unpleasant, single and past her prime,'' and, in a mixture of original songs of his own along with his extensions and parodies of songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Charles Strouse and Lee Adams and others, he appears to explore how she got that way. |
 | | Barton plays Miss Gulch with energetic, pop-eyed verve but his songs are tossed out in such pell-mell fashion that they rarely have a chance to jell. |
| query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E5DF123BF931A25751C0A962948260 (248 words) |
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