Divamensch

My friend Scott and I spent quite a while talking about Ann-Margret the other night. It's dangerous to put a quarter in that slot with me because I can go ON and ON about her. The next night I was looking for something to watch and realized that I hadn't checked the Turner Classic Movies streaming app in a while. Lo and behold, they have Viva Las Vegas, which I had never seen! Come on - - if I'm an Ann-Margret fanatic, this is must-see viewing, right? It says a lot that I've

Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street won the 1979 Tony for Best Musical. A big operatic Sondheim musical about a serial murderer and his accomplice who bakes his victims into meat pies. Cut the throat of that Diva and put it on a plate! One of the other nominees was Ballroom, a warm-hearted musical about a middle-aged widow finding her way back into the world through ballroom dancing. A Mensch for sure.