Lady in the Dark

Musical by KURT WEILL and IRA GERSHWIN, 1941. The title character is the editor of a women's magazine who undergoes a strenuous program of psychoanalysis. This gives a clue to three extended dream episodes as she recounts them to the analyst. The dreams plainly indicate that she should marry the magazine's managing editor, and so she does. Includes Tchaikovsky, a tongue-twisting tour de force originally written for the comedian Danny Kaye, who must recite the names of 50 Russian composers at a very fast pace.