There Are Parades In Town
Parade as metaphor on Broadway
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Mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper is rattled. The iron fist with which she once ruled her town now seems hopelessly corroded.
By the time Cora sings “There’s A Parade In Town,” deep into the second act of Anyone Can Whistle (1964), events are conspiring against her. Chaos reigns. J. Bowden Hapgood has whipped up Cookies and townsfol…
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