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| | Smirking at ‘The Sound Of Music' - December 11, 2006 - The New York Sun |
 | | When "The Sound of Music" debuted on Broadway in 1959, it was a paradigm of Mittel-Europe meets the Great White Way schmaltz, as well as true musical comedy/operetta sentiment. |
 | | Elkins's "Fraulein Maria," performed to selections from the soundtrack of "The Sound of Music," sung mostly by Julie Andrews, was funny in part because I wanted so much to laugh. |
 | | Elkins's irreverent margin notes scribbled over the score of "Sound of Music," served to deconstruct, but also bowed to the highly accomplished formulas of the original, which, in the end, proved as tough and durable as tungsten. |
| www.nysun.com /article/44946 (753 words) |
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