42nd Street, review: wildly outdated, but utterly fabulous

• “Musical comedy – the two most wonderful words in the English language!” So says Julian Marsh, the whip cracking musical theatre director in this evanescent tap dancing caper set largely behind the scenes of a, yes, new musical comedy in Depression-era America. A crudely filleted and augmented version of the original Busby Berkeley-choreographed 1933 film, Mark Bramble and Mike Warren’s 1980 musical adaptation is a love letter to a fantasy Broadway that lives most vividly within its own glorious